On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §227

Man. Post. Cap. IV: Tertia — violatio conditionis ≠ poena

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Third proof: breaking the condition or precept is not itself the penalty announced against the breaker. But loss of righteousness is breaking the condition or precept. Therefore that loss is not the announced penalty. The major is obvious; I prove the minor as follows. Whatever the law forbids is a breach of the law. The law forbids righteousness being absent from a man as firmly as it commands righteousness to be in him. Therefore that absence—which you call spiritual death—is a breach of the law.

Latin

Tertia, violatio conditionis sive praecepti non est poena transgressori denunciata. Sed privatio justitiae est violatio conditionis seu praecepti. Ergo non est poena transgressori denunciata. Major probatione non eget: Minorem sic demonstro. Quod lex prohibet, id legis violatio est. At lex prohibet absentiam justitiae in homine (tam certe quam jubet homini justitiam inesse.) Ergo absentia justitiae (quae tibi mors est spiritualis) violatio est legis.

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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