On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §543

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — active ἥμαρτον ≠ your actual-by-imputation; Pelagius risk

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Yet you deny that this satisfies you: for, you say, the Apostle does not say since sin is in all (nay, he says this in the following verse) but, since all have sinned, eph' hoi pantes hemarton, and he uses an active verb, that he may signify actual sin, of which all are partakers. But in original sin we have not sinned by act, except insofar as we sinned in Adam: for when he sinned he sinned for all his posterity, and all men who were born of him sinned in him, because in him all were. The force of proving, if there is any, in those words of yours, consists in this, that the word hemarton, they sinned, being active, signifies actual sin. The rest are petitions of what was in the beginning. And yet that active verb, if it signifies actual sin, surely signifies actual sin committed by him himself who sinned. Bring forward, if you can, a contrary example. See therefore lest this observation of yours favor Pelagius.

Latin

Id tamen negas tibi satisfacere: non enim, inquis, dicit Apostolus quoniam peccatum est in omnibus (immo hoc dicit versu sequente) sed, quoniam omnes peccaverunt, ἐφ' ᾧ πάντες ἥμαρτον, & utitur verbo activo, ut significet peccatum actuale, cuius omnes sint participes. In peccato autem originali non peccavimus actu, nisi quatenus in Adamo peccavimus: nam cum peccavit pro omnibus suis posteris peccavit, & omnes homines qui ex illo nati sunt in illo peccaverunt, quia in illo omnes fuerunt. Vis probandi, si qua est, in tuis istis verbis, in hoc consistit, quod verbum ἥμαρτον peccaverunt, activum cum sit, significat peccatum actuale. Reliqua petitiones sunt τοῦ ἐν ἀρχῇ. Atqui verbum illud activum, si significat peccatum actuale, profecto peccatum actuale significat ab eo ipso commissum qui peccavit. Profer, si potes, contrarium exemplum. Vide igitur ne haec tua observatio Pelagio faveat.

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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