On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §674

Man. Post. Cap. X: PLAC — corruption plus double reatus is unexampled as ‘sin’

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But if you say that the sin which was in the world until the law embraces corruption together with guilt, I will ask which guilt you mean: that which follows corruption (for sin, when it is, pours guilt from itself), or that which is said to precede corruption, and in respect of which corruption is not sin but the penalty of sin?

That latter certainly cannot be excluded: corruption will therefore be understood as attended with a double guilt, one antecedent, the other subsequent—a way of taking sin which can be proved by no example.

Latin

Quod si dicas, peccatum quod usque ad legem in mundo fuit, una cum reatu corruptionem complecti, quem intelligas reatum quaeram: illumne qui sequitur corruptionem (peccatum enim, cum sit, reatum a se fundit), an vero illum qui corruptionem antecedere dicitur, & cuius respectu corruptio non est peccatum, sed poena peccati? Ille certe excludi non potest: intelligetur igitur corruptio duplici stipata reatu, altero antecedente, altero subsequente, quomodo peccatum recipi aliquando, nullo exemplo probari potest.

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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