On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §215

Man. Post. Cap. IV: interpreters vitam; Zanchius/Pareus; sanctitas as sanitas

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So every interpreter I have seen rendered "life," not "lives." Either they found no mystery in the plural חַיִּים, or they took it to hint at the lives strictly needed for human essence and nature—vegetative, sensitive, and rational—which is Zanchius's and Pareus's view, and not to be scorned.

As the body's formation belonged to making and composing the human being, so did this inspiring of נִשְׁמַת חַיִּים. To that same constitution I gladly also refer sanctity and blessedness, increased when Adam, after he was made, was brought into paradise. Sanctity stood to the soul as health stands to the body.

Latin

Itaque interpretes omnes quos viderim, vitam verterunt non vitas, & vel nihil mysterii in plurali חַיִּים quaesierunt, vel putarunt eo innui eas vitas, quae ad hominis essentiam & naturam sunt absolute necessariae, vegetativam, sensitivam, & rationalem, quae Zanchii & Parei opinio est non contemnenda: quam enim formatio Corporis, tam haec quoque נִשְׁמַת חַיִּים inspiratio ad hominis fabricationem & compositionem, ac constitutionem pertinebat, ad quam etiam sanctitatem & beatitudinem, introductione Adami, postquam creatus fuit, in paradisum, auctam, libenter refero. Habebat enim se sanctitas ad animam, ut sanitas ad corpus.

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.

Witnesses

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