On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §658

Man. Post. Cap. IX tip — sinned in Adam as we were in him: by natural generation, not divine imputation

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All men sinned in Adam as they were in him.

But they were in him not by imputation of his being (τοῦ εἶναι), but because his being is the cause of the being of all.

Therefore all sinned in him not by imputation of his sin, but because his sin is the cause of the sin of all—a cause, I say, in the same way his being is the cause of ours: not by intervening divine imputation, but through natural generation and propagation.

Latin

Peccavisse omnes homines in Adamo, quomodo in eo fuerunt. Fuerunt autem in eo non imputatione τοῦ εἶναι ipsius, sed quia eius esse est causa τοῦ εἶναι omnium. Peccavisse igitur in eo omnes, non peccati ipsius imputatione, sed quia peccatum eius est causa peccati omnium; causa, inquam, eo modo quo ipsius esse est causa nostri, non imputationis divinae interventu, sed per generationem & propagationem naturalem.

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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