§72. Even though we cannot apply in the very same way the notion of original sin explicated thus far to the first human beings, nonetheless there is no reason to explicate the general human susceptibility to sin based on some alteration that has taken place within human nature in the very person of the first human beings by the first sin. 1. This proposition is meant solely to fend off error and promises no intention of establishing anything concerning the way sin emerged in the first human beings.