On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §101

Cap. IX: Garissoles (3) — softens decimandi impropriety; Heb. 7:5–6 already uses it bare

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After this useless skirmish he adds, third: "Yet we do this and follow the more common position — ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, 'so to speak.' The words are therefore fitted for softening the Apostle's saying." This does our cause no harm at all. For that reason for softening is to be referred not to the matter itself, but rather to the verb of tithing. Persons are not properly tithed, but goods — as everyone knows — when a tenth part is taken out of them. So because there is a certain impropriety in saying that Levi was tithed, for what is meant — that tithes were taken from Levi — therefore, he thinks, the Apostle judged this oddity should be softened by the little words ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν. I marvel that this slipped from a learned man. He does not seem to have looked at the place. For he would have seen the Apostle already twice use that same verb in the same way without any softening: once in verse 5 — ἀποδεκατοῦν τὸν λαόν, "they tithe the people" — and again in verse 6 — δεδεκάτωκεν τὸν Ἀβραάμ, "he tithed Abraham." Therefore the Apostle did not mean to soften the verb of tithing when used that way.

Latin

Praemissa hac inutili velitatione, subjungit, 3. Nos tamen facimus ac positionem communiorem sequimur, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν, ut ita dicam. Verba sunt ergo molliendo dicto Apostoli apposita. Hoc quidem causae nostrae nihil praejudicat. Illa enim molliendi ratio, non rem ipsam, sed potius ad verbum decimandi referenda est. Non enim personae, proprie decimantur, sed bona, ut notum est, cum ex eis decima pars excerpitur. Ergo quia quaedam improprietas est in eo quod Levi decimatus dicitur, pro eo quod est, decimas ex Levi acceptas fuisse, ideo existimavit Apostolus hanc ἀτοπίαν esse leniendam per voculas, ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν. Miror hoc excidisse Viro docto. Non videtur inspexisse locum. Vidisset enim Apostolum jam bis absque ulla emollitione verbum illud eodem modo usurpasse, semel vers. 5. ἀποδεκατοῦν τὸν λαόν dicens, decimant populum & iterum vers. 6. δεδεκάτωκεν τὸν Ἀβραάμ, decimavit Abrahamum. Non igitur decimandi verbum sic usurpatum emollire voluit Apostolus.

About this text

Josue de la Place (Placeus) — Capita I–XIV partial of De imputatione primi peccati Adami from the 1661 Saumur Latin, through Man. Post. Caput X (GAR.1–3 Rom. 5.13 tip) / before PLAC on reatus-only. Honest partial; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. Caput IX (eph-ho / eph-ho pantes) before eph-ho / eph-ho pantes, reconstructed from IA PDF page images with Vision OCR and pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Cap. IX deepen+ remain.

Catalogue & scope

IA deimputationepri00lapl. Densify: Capita I–XII + Caput XIV + Man. Post. Cap. II–VI through Cap. X Rom. 5:14 tip. Not whole Disputatio; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

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