On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §318

Man. Post. Cap. VI: PLAC Christ/Adam phrase-disparity; no immediate locutions

But the word 'is said' in this interrogation is not to be taken relative to Scripture alone, as the learned man does, but relative to Scripture and all the theologians, who never said Adam is our sin, or our unrighteousness, or that we are unrighteousness in Adam. For the diversity of phrases when Christ and Adam are treated in the matter of justification and condemnation argues diversity and disparity between the two. And so it becomes us to be content with those phrases which occur in Scripture—and truly we are greatly content with them—yet it also becomes us to consider those phrases attentively, and to weigh the reasons why God thus or thus expressed His mind, or did not express it; in which the Apostles went before us by their example, sometimes even urging Scripture's very silence. But there are no locutions in the Apostle which manifestly mark immediate imputation; indeed none have been seen that mark it even obscurely.

Latin

Non est autem verbum dicitur in hac interrogatione accipiendum relative ad solam Scripturam, ut facit vir doctus, sed relative ad Scripturam & omnes Theologos, qui nunquam dixerunt Adamum esse peccatum nostrum, aut iniustitiam nostram, aut nos esse iniustitiam in Adamo. Diversitas enim phrasium cum de Christo & Adamo agitur in negotio justificationis & condemnationis arguit inter utrumque diversitatem atque disparitatem. Itaque nos quidem decet iis phrasibus esse contentos, quae in Scriptura occurrunt, & vero nos iis admodum contenti sumus, sed decet nos tamen eas phrases attente considerare, rationes expendere, quare sic vel sic Deus mentem suam expressit, vel non expressit; in quo nobis suo exemplo praeiverunt Apostoli, ipsum etiam Scripturae silentium interdum urgentes. Nullae autem sunt apud Apostolum locutiones quae imputationem immediatam manifeste designent, immo ne obscure quidem quae designent, visae sunt.

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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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