Meaning of sinnable | Babel Free

Definitions

Able to sin.

obsolete

Examples

“He can charge the Angel themselves (who may be the Heavens in the fore-mentioned place) with folly, Job 4. 18. because though they never sinned, yet they are sinnable; 'tis possible they might sin, as some of their order have done, if not kept from it by confirming grace.”

“I represented to my father that I was very sinable [sic], that I had done wrong in espousing a cause so repugnant to his feelings, and contrary to my own opinion also.”

“All the elements of sin are found in the narrative :—1, innocence ; 2, a known law accompanied with a clear prohibition ; 3, a sinnable nature ; 4, an object desirable to that nature ; 5, the activity of the temptation under a veiled and so not repulsive form ; 6, yielding to the seduction ; 7, conscious guilt ; 8, fear and flight ; 9, detection ; 10, exposure and condemnation.”

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