On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §481

Man. Post. Cap. IX: actual past vs inhering vice — before four proofs

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Adam's first actual sin, committed some five thousand years ago, has passed, and did not remain in the nature of things: inhering vice remained with human nature, and is and thrives today. That is unique in number; of this there are as many individuals as there are humans. That was an action; this stands in the manner of a habit. That is outside us, and it is not possible for it to be in us; this is within us, sticking in us. That you think is ours, but only by God's imputation; this is truly ours, deeply inhering in us: That you will have as fault; this as its penalty. With this ambiguity and confusion removed, let us see by what reasons you prove that the Apostle by the sin which entered into the world understands Adam's actual sin. Which was certainly Pighius's opinion, which Bellarmine himself refuted with some arguments, but I do not wish to press you with prejudices.

Latin

Peccatum primum actuale Adami ante quinque millia annorum commissum praeteriit, nec permansit in rerum natura: vitium inhaerens cum natura humana permansit, estque & viget hodie. Illud unicum est numero, hujus tot sunt individua quot homines. Illud fuit actio, hoc se habet ad modum habitus. Illud extra nos est, nec possibile est esse in nobis, hoc est intra nos in nobis haerens. Illud tu putas nostrum esse, sed imputatione duntaxat Dei, hoc vere nostrum est, nobis penitus inhaerens: Illud vis esse culpam, hoc illius poenam. Hac ambiguitate & confusione sublata, videamus quibus rationibus probes, Apostolum per peccatum quod in mundum introiit peccatum actuale Adami intelligere. Quae certe fuit sententia Pighii, quam ipse Bellarminus aliquot argumentis confutavit, sed nolo te praejudiciis urgere.

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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