On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §626

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — better rest in Calvin's Clavis: Hebrew 'sin' often quality/condition, not act

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You would therefore, in my judgment, have done better if, resting in Calvin's interpretation, you had not despised what you could read in the Clavis Scripturae under the name peccatum. He writes that the verb "sinned" in the Qal conjugation often signifies not an action, but an inherent quality, or a man's lot and condition, or to be a sinner, to be guilty—just as Hebrew verbs very often indicate only the existence of a thing, not an action or passion or other motion.

Latin

Rectius igitur mea sententia fecisses, si Calvini interpretationi acquiescens non contempsisses id quod legere potuisti in Clavi Scripturae ad nomen peccatum, his verbis: significat quoque crebro verbum חטא peccavit in prima conjugatione non actionem, sed qualitatem inhaerentem, seu sortem ac conditionem hominis, seu esse peccatorem, esse reum, sicut solent verba hebraea saepissime tantum existentiam rei, non actionem aut passionem aliumve motum indicare.

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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