id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 08612n51m9r Michael Francis Borderline Bad: Philo of Alexandria on the Distinction between Voluntary and Involuntary Sin 1904 .txt text/plain 444 13 29 Voluntary sin is, then, by its nature a very serious thing, a denial of the creator's claim on the creature and the mark of a thoroughly reprehensible soul. In contrast, involuntary sin is simply an unfortunate entailment of created human existence, an inevitability of life in the corporeal realm for those who cannot escape the non-rational within and without, even exemplary souls still in the process of striving for virtue. cache/08612n51m9r.txt txt/08612n51m9r.txt