On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §289

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC — judicial justice; ours before immediate

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For justice not only does not require, but does not even suffer, that by judicial imputation a sin should become the sin of him whose sin it would otherwise not have been. For the judge would make a sinner of one otherwise not a sinner—which conflicts with the judge's office as much as anything can. Therefore the learned man observes in vain that alien persons are not imputed, but actions. For I was not arguing thus: if Adam's action is imputed to us, his person also is imputed to us. But I was contending that no fit cause can be given why that action should be imputed to us immediately; and among the rest I was excluding this—that that action of Adam is ours, and therefore is justly imputed to us. It was understood, then, to be ours not through immediate imputation, but before it: in which way it cannot be said why it is more ours than Adam's person itself. Therefore it is not what I said that the learned man attacks, but something else.

Latin

Justitia enim non modo non exigit, sed ne patitur quidem, ut judiciaria imputatione peccatum fiat eius peccatum, cujus alioqui peccatum non fuisset. Faceret enim peccatorem judex, alioqui non peccatorem, id quod cum judicis officio pugnat, ut quod maxime. Itaque frustra observat vir doctus alienas personas non imputari, sed actiones. Non enim sic argumentabar; si actio Adami nobis imputatur, etiam nobis imputatur eius persona: Sed contendebam nullam reddi posse causam idoneam, cur illa actio nobis imputetur immediate; ac inter caeteras hanc excludebam, nostram esse actionem illam Adami: ac proinde nobis jure imputari. Intelligebatur igitur esse nostra, non per imputationem immediatam, sed ante illam: quo modo dici non potest, cur magis nostra sit, quam ipsa persona Adami. Non igitur id quod dixi vir doctus oppugnat, sed aliud quid.

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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