On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §271

Man. Post. Cap. VI: species/number unity fail; Porphyry; proposition unclear

For how are all men considered as one person in Adamdamdam? As Porphyry said—by participation of the species many men are one, that is, by specific unity? But that cannot help the imputation of Adam's actual sin to all men: for actions belong to individuals, not to genus or speciesfferences by which they are distinguished among themselves are set down, all men are no more Adam than any other man whatever is: for Adam is contained under the species of man no less than the remaining individual men. Or do you mean that all men were considered as one man numerically in Adam? Nothing falser could be feigned than that consideration. What, then, do you mean by this proposition? I frankly confess I do not understand what sense not foolish it can have.

Latin

Nam quomodo omnes homines considerantur tanquam unus homo in Adamo? an quomodo dixit Porphyrius participatione speciei multos homines esse unum, unitate scilicet specifica? at id juvare non potest imputationem peccati actualis Adami omnibus hominibus: actiones enim sunt suppositorum, non autem generis, aut speciei: nec positis, quibus inter se distinguuntur, differentiis propriis omnes homines magis sunt Adamus, quam alius quilibet homo: continetur enim sub hominis specie Adamus haud secus quam reliqui individui homines. An vis omnes homines consideratos fuisse tanquam unum numero hominem in Adamo? nihil fingi posset falsius ista consideratione. Quid igitur tibi vis hac propositione? Ea, fateor ingenue, non intelligo quem sensum non ineptum habere possit.

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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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