“To be without sin” has two
meanings in Scripture. One is never to have sinned at all; the other is to have
ceased sinning. If they say that the phrase “to be without sin” describes
someone who has never sinned at all, then we agree that no one is without sin.
All of us have sinned at some time, even though we might have become virtuous
afterwards. But, if they take the phrase “no one is without sin” as denying
that anyone, after he has sinned, can return to the practice of virtues and
never sin again, then their opinion is wrong. For, it can happen that someone
who has previously sinned can stop sinning and be said to be “without sin.”
(Origen, Homily 2 on the Gospel of Luke, in Homilies on Luke and Fragments
on Luke, ed. Thomas P. Halton [trans. Joseph T. Lienhard; The Fathers of
the Church 94; The Catholic University of America Press, 2009], 10)
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