On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §50

Cap. VII: Resp. 1 tertium — ἐφ᾽ ᾧ construction overturns the "in quo" version

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To those two vices a third also is added. For he contradicts himself. For if that was the mind of the Apostle which this response attributes to him, certainly the words ἐφ᾽ ᾧ πάντες ἥμαρτον (Romans 5:12) ought to be construed after all the antecedents — "sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death pervaded into all" — for they would answer the question that could arise from those immediately preceding words. That overturns the version "in which." For with that version posited, the words "in which all sinned" ought to be construed before all those: for they cohere immediately with the noun ἀνθρώπου, and there is a transposition. So they ought to be construed: "As through one man, in whom all sinned, sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death pervaded into all men" (Romans 5:12).

Latin

Ad duo ista vitia accedit etiam tertium. Sibi enim ipse repugnat. Nam si ea fuit mens Apostoli quam ei tribuit haec responsio, certe verba ἐφ᾽ ᾧ πάντες ἥμαρτον construi debent, post antecedentia omnia, peccatum in mundum introiit, et per peccatum mors, et ita mors in omnes pervasit: responsio enim essent ad quaestionem, quae ex verbis illis immediate praecedentibus exoriri poterat. Id quod versionem in quo evertit. Ea enim posita construi debent verba in quo omnes peccaverunt, ante illa omnia: cohaerent enim immediate cum nomine ἀνθρώπου et est trajectio. Sic ergo construi deberent, Sicut per unum hominem, in quo omnes peccaverunt, peccatum in mundum introiit, et per peccatum mors, et ita in omnes homines mors pervasit.

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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