On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §459

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: poison-spread vs imputation — imputation is God's work

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But he is not the cause of a common evil unless either he himself breathed that evil into all, or at least produced in one such an evil as of itself, by its own natural force, spread and propagated itself into all like poison, like a plague. Imputation, the infliction of penalty, is God's work, not the ancient serpent's.

Latin

Non est autem causa mali communis, nisi aut illud ipse omnibus inspiraverit, aut saltem tale malum in uno produxerit, quod sponte, per se, naturali vi sua sese in omnes ut venenum, ut pestis, diffuderit, & propagaverit. Imputatio, inflictio poenae Dei opus est, non serpentis antiqui.

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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