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On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §483

Man. Post. Cap. IX: proof 2 — infected formally vs causally

2. The Apostle treats of the sin which infected the World and brought in death. But this fits only Adam's actual sin from which original sin is in us. Therefore the Apostle treats only of Adam's actual sin. I distinguish the sin which infected the World: for it is said to have infected either formally, or causally or efficiently. In the former way inhering vice and corruption infected the world; in the latter Adam's actual sin. But the Apostle in this verse speaks of the sin which infected the world in the former way: for he does not say that sin infected the world, but that it entered into the world. Adam's actual sin is said to have infected the world causally, because it is the cause of that sin which entered into the world. But the sin which entered into the world, since it is inside the world, formally affects and infects that in which it is.

Latin

2. Apostolus agit de peccato quod Mundum infecit, & mortem invexit. Hoc autem convenit tantum peccato actuali Adami ex quo peccatum originale in nobis. Ergo Apostolus agit tantum de peccato actuali Adami. Distinguo peccatum quod Mundum infecit: nam infecisse dicitur vel formaliter, vel causaliter sive efficienter. Priori modo mundum infecit vitium & corruptio inhaerens, posteriore peccatum actuale Adami. Loquitur autem Apostolus hoc versu de peccato quod infecit mundum priori modo: non enim ait peccatum infecisse mundum, sed introisse in mundum. Peccatum actuale Adami mundum infecisse dicitur causaliter, quia causa est ejus peccati quod introiit in mundum. Peccatum vero quod introiit in mundum, cum sit intra mundum formaliter eum afficit & inficit in quo est.

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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.

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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