On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §437

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: infant in utero — future sins not imputed; contradiction

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Do you think those sins are imputed to an infant in the mother's womb which, if it had lived and reached old age, it would have done through the whole time of life? I do not think so. Why then do you want an actual sin imputed to it that was then committed when it did not yet exist—indeed some thousands of years before it was—and which it itself committed neither in act nor in potency: not in act, because it was not; not in potency, because when it was being committed it could not then be—this is what I mean: it could not be with respect to that time in which that sin was perpetrated—so far that it implies a contradiction that that same numbered deed which you want imputed to us was done by us, or was done. We never did it, nor could we do it, nor since we were born can we do it.

Latin

Infanti in utero materno putasne ea peccata imputari, quae si vixisset, & ad senium pervenisset toto vitae tempore facturus fuisset? non arbitror. Cur igitur ei vis imputari peccatum actuale tunc admissum cum nondum erat, immo aliquot annorum millibus antequam esset, quodque adeo ipse nec actu, nec potentia commisit; non actu, quia non erat; non potentia, quia cum committeretur, non poterat tunc esse, hoc volo, non poterat esse respectu illius temporis quo peccatum illud perpetratum est, usque adeo ut implicet contradictionem illud idem numero quod vis nobis imputari a nobis fieri, aut factum esse. Nunquam illud fecimus, nec facere potuimus, nec ex quo nati sumus facere possumus.

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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