On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §83

Cap. VIII: First and proximate causes — inhering corruption reigns

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So Adam's fall is the first cause of death's reign, but the proximate cause is the sin produced from it and inhering in all; and because that sin reigns, death also reigns. Certainly the sin in human beings not only is, but lives; not only lives but reigns — the sin they serve, the sin they obey, whose law is in their members. That is not Adam's actual sin, but its effect: inhering corruption.

Latin

Est igitur lapsus Adae prima causa regni mortis, sed proxima est ab illo productum peccatum omnibus inhaerens, quod quia regnat, etiam mors regnat. Certe peccatum quod in hominibus non modo est, sed vivit; non modo vivit sed regnat; cui serviunt, cui obediunt, cujus lex est in membris. Id non est peccatum actuale Adami, sed hujus effectum, corruptio inhaerens.

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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