On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §513

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — Pighius defense; pious ear refuses sins entered Christ

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PLAC. Pighius's exposition could not have been defended more carefully than it is by the learned man in this place: for he moves no stone that he may wrest from the orthodox the argument which they are accustomed to draw against Pelagius and Pighius from the Apostle's words, through one man sin entered into the world. But he labors in vain. Truth cannot be stormed. What is it, why the learned man demands to be granted to himself, that the compound eiselthein differs in signification not at all from the simple elthein? Or who will bear one saying that our sins entered into Christ, or that through us sin entered into Christ? Does not a pious conscience flee such a locution?

Latin

PLAC. Non potuit diligentius Pighii expositio defendi, quam sit a viro docto hoc quidem in loco: nullum enim lapidem non movet ut extorqueat e manibus orthodoxorum argumentum, quod soliti sunt adversus Pelagium & Pighium ex verbis Apostoli ducere, per unum hominem peccatum introiit in mundum. Sed frustra laborat. Expugnari veritas non potest. Quid est, quare sibi dari Vir doctus postulet, compositum εἰσελθεῖν, nihil significatione differre a simplici ἐλθεῖν? Aut quis ferat dicentem peccata nostra introiisse in Christum, aut per nos peccatum intrasse in Christum? Nonne talem locutionem pia refugit conscientia?

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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