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On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §57

Cap. VII: Garissoles Resp. 2 — the dubium and ἐφ᾽ ᾧ as Adam's imputed reatus

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This was Doctor Garissoles's first response. 2. "As to the doubt," he says, "which could arise in readers' minds, there would plainly be no legitimate response of the Apostle if he gave such a one as the learned man wants. For this is the doubt: how there is so great force in one sin of one Adam that it sentences the whole multitude of men to death. The response is said to be that this comes about thence, that all have sinned in their own person. But this is to play, not to satisfy the doubt. For this reason can indeed be why all are sentenced to death, because all have sinned. But here it is not asked why all are sentenced to death, but rather this: why in one sin of one Adam there is so great force that it produces this effect, namely death. The response therefore ought to deal with that sin of Adam, not with each of ours, about which nothing had been said in the doubt proposed. Therefore, for the response to be fitting, it is necessary that we interpret ἐφ᾽ ᾧ πάντες ἥμαρτον of Adam's own sin, which sentences all to death because its reatus descends upon all, or because through imputation it becomes common to all. This is so clear and evident that here the disputant must have been in a great hurry." The author of this reason may perhaps have hurried, but not too much: for he disputes excellently. But whether Doctor Garissoles hurried, I do not know; this much is certain to me, that he here, as elsewhere throughout, does not dispute rightly.

Latin

Haec prima fuit D. G. responsio. 2. Ad dubium, inquit, quod emergere potuit in lectorum animis, nulla esset plane Apostoli responsio legitima, si talem daret, qualem vult Vir Doctus. Dubium enim hoc est, quomodo tanta sit vis in uno unius Adami peccato, ut totam hominum multitudinem morti addicat. Responsio dicitur esse, id inde fieri, quod omnes peccaverint in sua propria persona. Hoc vero ludere est, non dubio satisfacere. Nam haec quidem ratio esse potest, propter quam morti omnes addicantur, quia omnes peccarunt. Sed hic non quaeritur, quare omnes morti addicantur, verum hoc potius, cur in uno unius Adami peccato tanta vis sit, ut hunc effectum producat, nempe mortem. Responsio igitur debet agere de peccato illo Adami, non de nostro uniuscujusque, de quo nihil dictum fuerat in dubio proposito. Itaque ut apposita sit responsio, necessarium est, ut illud ἐφ᾽ ᾧ πάντες ἥμαρτον, interpretemur de peccato ipsius Adami, quod omnes morti addicat, propterea quod ejus reatus in omnes descendit, sive quia propter imputationem commune sit omnibus. Hoc ita clarum est & evidens, ut hic oporteat valde festinasse disputatorem. Festinavit quidem fortasse autor hujus rationis, sed non nimis: optime enim disputat. Sed an festinaverit D. G. nescio, illud certe mihi constat, eum hic, ut alibi passim, haud recte disputare.

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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