Chapters In Book Vi.
That not from sins of the soul prior to birth do bodily suffering's befal any, nor yet does God bring the sins of the fathers upon the children or of any upon other, punishing those who have nothing sinned, but brings righteous doom upon all, on the words, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?
ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΑ ΤΑ ΕΝ ΤΩι ΕΚΤΩι ΒΙΒΛΙΩι. Ὅτι οὐκ ἐκ προγενεστέρων τῆς ψυχῆς ἁμαρτημάτων τὰ σωματικά τισιν ἐπισυμβαίνει πάθη, ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ἁμαρτίας πατέρων ἐπὶ τέκνα ἢ τίνων ἐπάγει τισὶν ὁ Θεὸς, τοὺς οὐδὲν ἡμαρτηκότας κολάζων, ἀλλὰ δίκαιον ἐφ' ἅπασιν ἐκφέρει τὸ κρῖμα, προσκειμένου ῥητοῦ Ῥαββὶ, τίς ἥμαρτεν, οὗτος ἢ οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ, ἵνα τυφλὸς γεννηθῇ;