On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §253

Man. Post. Cap. IV: GAR Resp. — eternal torment vs proper death

y. The learned man grants that 'death' covers both bodily death and the eternal torment of hell, as we have heard. What then will he say if someone turns his own argument back on him: the same word in a law that should use ordinary language cannot be taken properly and metaphorically together; hell's torment is death only metaphorically, since only bodily death is death properly so called; therefore those words cannot mean that torment.

Latin

GAR. Resp. Agnoscit Vir doctus, mortis nomine, tum mortem corporalem, tum etiam aeternum inferorum cruciatum intelligi, ut audivimus. Quid ergo responsurus est, si quis hoc argumentum ipsi reponat; vocem eandem in lege, quae debeat verbis usitatis concipi, non posse simul proprie & metaphorice sumi: cruciatum autem inferorum esse mortem metaphorice dictam, cum sola corporalis sit mors proprie dicta: ergo non posse his verbis intelligi cruciatum illum.

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. No modern English was copied. Cap. IX deepen+ remain.

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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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