Inquinament or contamination

Meaning

Inquinament is defilement or contamination. In II.3.9 it links what the author says is received from parents with the further pollution incurred through excessive use of corruptible foods and pleasures. The degree of an individual’s corruption depends upon both inherited and acquired conditions in this account. Its counterexample is conditional: if earth were as pure as heaven, earthly life would have a different duration. It does not assert that ordinary earthly bodies already enjoy celestial purity. “Defilement” also need not mean moral guilt at every occurrence; the passage interweaves physical and moral explanation without making their senses identical.