 Soto never denied that God is the ultimate origin of the Christian commonwealth, but he distinguished between the natural and supernatural order and held that, in the natural, temporal order, peace and tranquility have to be guaranteed by the commonwealth and can be identified with the bonum commune (Grimm 2017: 74–77; Soto-DII I, qu.1 art. 2). This internal peace, the bonum commune, is the aim of any legitimate law; on the other hand, it is stabilized by just laws, which are more easily waged by a peaceful society. In this way, the theologians of the School of Salamanca implicitly paved the way for a secular understanding of the state as a human institution that preserves peace and prosperity within a society. There are differences between some of the authors concerning the anthropological question of whether human organizations and the distribution of property were already to be found in statu innocentiae or only later, after the Fall, when domination and property became necessary because of human weakness.