On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §477

Man. Post. Cap. IX: unus≠primus vs one-man/one-man Adam–Christ; follow your method

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To this is added that in this place you seem to me to write a commentary rather than to knit syllogisms: and not to have before your eyes the status of the controversy well constituted and purged; for you often confuse what most ought to be distinguished, and you also mix in certain things which, though true in themselves, yet do not look hither—such as that which you observe, and prove by some examples, that among the Hebrews 'one' is often taken for 'first.' For that it cannot so be taken in this place is opposed by the opposition which the Apostle sets between one man and one man, that Adam and this Christ. Likewise between one trespass and one gift: not to mention that the Apostle's aim demands that unity in this place be opposed to plurality: but it does not help to digress. It would therefore have been better, as I at least judge, that what you wished to be cut apart and disjoined in places should, for the sake of avoiding either tedious repetition or inconvenient distraction, be brought together into this place, and set before the reader's eyes at once in one coherent context of speech; but because it seemed otherwise to you, I will accommodate my method to yours, and will follow you foot by foot, and will weigh those arguments which you could gather from Rom. 5, my Theses having been rejected into another place.

Latin

Huc accedit quod hoc loco commentarium mihi videris scribere potius quam syllogismos nectere: nec habere ob oculos statum controversiae bene constitutum & purgatum; confundis enim saepe quae maxime distingui debent, admisces etiam quaedam quae, ut in se vera sint, huc tamen non spectant, quale illud est quod observas, & aliquot exemplis probas, saepe unum apud Hebraeos pro primo sumi. Quominus enim hoc loco sic possit accipi obstat oppositio, quam Apostolus instituit inter unum hominem & unum hominem, illum Adamum hunc Christum. Item inter unum παράπτωμα & unum χάρισμα: ut taceam scopum Apostoli flagitare, ut unitas hoc loco opponatur pluralitati: sed non juvat excurrere. Satius igitur ut ego quidem arbitror fuisset, quae tu locis discissa & disjuncta esse voluisti, ea vitandae vel taediosae repetitionis, vel incommodae distractionis causa, in hunc locum comportare, ac uno contextu sermonis cohaerentia simul oculis legentis subjicere; sed quia tibi aliter visum est, tuae methodo meam accommodabo, teque sequar πόδας, eaque argumenta expendam, quae tu ex Rom. v. colligere potuisti meis Thesibus in alium locum rejectis.

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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