On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §239

Man. Post. Cap. IV: Noli — peccatum ≠ poena proprie

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Do not tell me that sin is sometimes the punishment of sin. First, sin as sin is not punishment—unless you mean to smash together two opposite kinds of evil and erase the line between penalty and guilt. Privation of righteousness in us, as such, is formally sin; it clashes with the law.

Second, that claim is not about punishment properly and strictly so called—the kind the law threatens and justice must have satisfied. Who believes justice demands that justice be broken? that justice is paid by wounding justice? that the penalty-debt is settled by making the debt larger? that a threat whose penalty is the very breach of the precept should be tacked onto the precept "do not break it"? I go on.

Latin

Noli mihi objicere peccatum esse interdum poenam peccati. Primum enim non est poena quatenus peccatum, nisi velis duas species mali oppositas inter se confundere, sublato inter malum poenae & culpae discrimine. Privatio autem justitiae in nobis, qua talis, formaliter peccatum est; repugnat enim legi. Deinde id non est accipiendum de poena proprie & stricte accepta, qualem lex comminatur & justitia necessario exigit ut sibi satisfiat. Quis enim credat justitiam exigere ut justitia violetur? satisfieri justitiae eo quo justitia laeditur? solvi poenae debitum eo, quo debitum illud augetur? Adjungi praecepto, ne violetur, comminationem poenae sitae in violatione praecepti? pergo igitur.

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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