On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §669

Man. Post. Cap. X: PLAC — from Paul’s words the pre-law sin is habitual vice in men

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I argue from the Apostle’s words.

The question is what sin is to be understood when the Apostle says, Through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death—and likewise, in that all sinned.

I say that the same is to be understood which is signified by the following words: For until the law sin was in the world.

Does the learned man deny, or concede? He seems to concede.

I therefore subsume: But by those words habitual sin is signified; for that was in the world, that is, in men, until the law—was it not?

What is there in this argument of mine that can be blamed? I ask you to reread it as it stands in the manuscript, and weigh it, most fair reader—or even as it was recited by the learned man.

Latin

Argumentor a verbis Apostoli. Quaeritur quod peccatum sit intelligendum, cum dicit Apostolus, Per unum hominem peccatum introivit in mundum, & per peccatum mors. Item, eo quod omnes peccaverunt. Aio, illud idem intelligendum esse, quod significatur verbis seqq. Nam usque ad legem peccatum erat in mundo. Negatne, an concedit Vir doctus? Concedere videtur. Subsumo igitur, Atqui verbis illis significatur peccatum habituale: id enim fuit in mundo, hoc est, in hominibus usque ad legem, nonne? Quid est in hoc meo argumento, quod reprehendi possit. Illud quaeso relege, ut est in manuscripto, & expende, lector aequissime, aut etiam ut recitatum est a Viro docto.

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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