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 '''82. In what does the misery consist into which out first parents have plunged the whole human race?'''

In this: that sin, with its fatal consequences, has passed from Adam to all mankind, insomuch that we now all come into this world infected with sin.

83. What do we call this sin in which we are all born?

We call it Original Sin, because we have not actually committed it, but have inherited it from our first parents, who were the origin or source of all mankind.

84. Is original sin, though not actually committed by us, nevertheless truly sin?

Yes, it is the death of the soul — it is truly and properly sin (Counc. of Trent, Sess. V.).

85. What fatal consequences have, with original sin, passed to all men?

1. Their disgrace with God, and at the same time their loss of the sonship of God, and of the right of inheriting the kingdom of Heaven; 2. Ignorance, concupiscence, and proneness to evil; and 3. All sorts of hardships, pains, calamities, and at last death.