On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §681

Man. Post. Cap. X: PLAC third — sin is not imputed when there is no law; no law for Adam’s act

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A third argument is supplied to me by what follows in the Apostle: sin is not imputed when there is no law.

But there is no law according to which Adam’s actual sin is imputed to us.

Therefore it is not imputed to us.

I prove the minor: for the major is the Apostle’s.

If there were any such law, it would be that singular one about not eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

But that for some thousands of years now is no more—that tree having been removed from the nature of things, or being wholly unknown to us and, like the other creatures of God, granted.

Therefore there is no law according to which Adam’s actual sin is imputed to us.

Latin

Tertium argumentum mihi suppeditant quae sequuntur apud Apostolum: peccatum non imputatur cum lex non est. Atqui lex non est secundum quam nobis imputetur peccatum actuale Adami. Ergo non imputatur nobis. Probo minorem: nam maior est Apostoli. Si qua eiusmodi lex esset, ea esset singularis illa de non edendo fructu arboris scientiae boni & mali. Atqui illa iam ab aliquot annorum millibus non est amplius, sublata e rerum natura illa arbore, aut nobis prorsus ignota, &, ut caeteras Dei creaturas, concessa. Ergo lex non est secundum quam nobis imputetur peccatum actuale Adami.

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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