On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §267

Man. Post. Cap. V: judicial act; own vs surety; Adam as ours; each own person

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Now such an imputation of sin is the act of a judge ascribing sin to someone by his sentence—that is, pronouncing someone guilty of a certain sin, and therefore to be visited with punishment. But sin is ascribed to someone either as to a sinner, or as to one who voluntarily sustains the sinner's person, as a surety: to the former as his own, to the latter as another's. If Adam's actual sin is imputed to us, it is ascribed not as another's, but as ours: for each of us, when he is conceived and born, bears his own person, not Adam's, whose surety he is not.

Latin

Est autem ejusmodi imputatio peccati, actus judicis sententia sua peccatum alicui tribuentis, hoc est, aliquem certi cujusdam peccati reum esse pronunciantis, ac propterea poena afficiendum. Tribuitur autem alicui peccatum vel tanquam peccatori, vel tanquam peccatoris personam ultro sustinenti, vadi: illi ut suum, huic ut alienum. Nobis si peccatum Adami actuale imputatur, tribuitur, non ut alienum, sed ut nostrum: suam enim quisque nostrum, cum concipitur & nascitur, personam, non Adami, cujus vas non est, gerit.

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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