"the male seed could then be introduced into the wife's
uterus without damage to her maidenhead,
even as now the menstrual flow can issue from a maiden's uterus without any such damage.
For the seed could be injected through the same passage as that by which the menses can be
ejected." (Augustine, City of God, 14. 26.)
as one example of speculation on Edenic sex, which would
have been rational and guiltless. The question is discussed
in P. J. Payer, *The Bridling of Desire*.
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:33:19 -0400 Tom Izbicki
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Isn't there a division in patristic opinion about whether there would have
> been guiltless generation if humanity had not fallen?
> Tom Izbicki
>
> At 06:35 PM 7/29/2000 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >--- Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > What about Hebrew? Margaret
> >Harvey, in the English in Rome, cites
> >> Adam
> >> Easton as saying that, had Adam not fell, all of us would be speaking
> >> Hebrew.
> >> Tom Izbicki
> >
> >What do you mean, all of us? There wouldn't be any of us, if Adam had
> >not fallen. He and Eve would still be living in the Paradise of
> >Pleasure, and would not have "known" his wife. :-)
> >
> >Oriens.
> >
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