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Man has three states

“since man has three states—namely, innocence, sin, and glory—Christ assumed from the state of glory the beatific vision; from the state of innocence, freedom from sin; and from the state of sin, the necessity of being subject to the penalties of this life”

 - (St Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, 3, 13, 3, ad 2)

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- Decretal on Penance (D. II., cap. Si quis semel)