On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §201

Man. Post. Cap. II: strictissime poena — three conditions; Ursinus fiat iustitia

On your account this is penalty in the tightest proper sense, and you put three marks on it. The Law must threaten it. Justice must demand that the Judge lay it on. The Judge must lay it on so justice is done—or so justice is satisfied. Ursinus, in the Catechetical Explanation, faced the objection that God should not have punished Adam with such a penalty, and answered: Let justice be done, though the world perish.

Latin

Nempe statuis esse poenam strictissime ac propriissime sic dictam, cujus hae sunt conditiones. 1. Lex eam comminatur. 2. Iustitia ut infligatur a Iudice exigit. 3. Iudex eam infligit ut fiat iustitia, sive ut iustitiae satisfiat. Itaque Ursinus in explicat. Catechet. Cum sibi objecisset non debuisse Deum culpam Adami tali poena punire, respondit fiat iustitia & pereat Mundus.

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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.

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