Into What Estate Did the Fall Bring Mankind?

A. The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.0

0 Rom. v. 12: Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

sin and misery. Sin is both guilt and disease. Man’s depravity, there fore, is the object both of vengeance and compassion, as the Catechism proceeds to set forth.