On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §255

Man. Post. Cap. IV: GAR 2–3 — omnem mortem / Scripturis; PLAC spiritualis=peccatum / OT

ince God here threatened every death Adam's sin deserved, why not say he threatened bodily, spiritual, and eternal death, when the sinner deserves to lie under them all?

death that sin deserves is a death other than sin. Spiritual death is itself sin, and it merits death.

or is it unusual in Scripture to call spiritual death by the name 'death'; the opposite is clear not only from Luke 9:60 but from many other texts we have already cited.

not say Scripture never uses 'death' for spiritual death. I said only that that sense is unused in the Old Testament, and that the phrase 'you shall die the death' in that sense is unused in Scripture as a whole. That is what my reason needs. He had already appealed to Ezek. 3:18 and Hos. 13:1—but in vain. Even without opposing interpreters who take neither place of spiritual death, the subject itself objects: those texts treat a death not common to all, but a death some incur for particular actual sins, whereas spiritual death belongs to all from birth and precedes every actual sin. So those places cannot mean spiritual death as the privation of original righteousness.

Latin

GAR. 2. Cum Deus hic omnem mortem comminatus sit, qua dignum erat peccatum Adae, quidni dicamus & corporalem & spiritualem & aeternam fuisse comminatam, cum is omnibus subjacere mereatur peccator? PLAC. Omnis mors, qua dignum est peccatum, est mors diversa a peccato. Mors autem spiritualis est peccatum, & meretur mortem. GAR. 3. Nec vero Scripturis inusitatum est mortis nomine, mortem spiritualem designare, cum contrarium pateat, non modo ex Luc. 9. 60. Sed etiam ex frequentibus testimoniis, quorum etiam nonnulla jam produximus. PLAC. Non dixi inusitatum esse Scripturis nomen mortis pro morte spirituali: Dixi tantum inusitatum esse Scripturae veteris Testamenti, dixi toti Scripturae inusitatam esse phrasim, morte morieris eo sensu. Id ad meam istam rationem attineat. Jam laudaverat, nam ex Ezech. 3. 18. & ex Hos. 13. 1. sed frustra; nam ut ne ei opponam interpretes neutrum locum de morte spirituali accipientes, reclamat ipsa res. Agitur enim in illis locis de morte, quae non est omnium hominum communis, sed de morte in quam incurrunt quidam ob sua quaedam peccata actualia, cum mors spiritualis omnium sit hominum, & quidem ab ipso eorum ortu, antecedens omnia ipsorum actualia peccata. Itaque non possunt loca illa de spirituali morte, in privatione justitiae originalis sita, accipi.

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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.

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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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