On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §499

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — habitual agreed; actual denied; two entry-modes

Next it is agreed between us that habitual sin entered through one man into all humans, and experience itself confirms it; but it is not agreed that actual sin entered through one man into all humans; for this we flatly deny, and it cannot be proved. Our interpretation therefore cannot be denied, since it is in confession. Those who oppose us must therefore prove their interpretation, before it can or ought to be admitted. Finally since those two modes of entering, of which one is feigned, the other is certain and confessed, are wholly diverse, and one with respect to the other is either nothing or figurative, how can such different things be expressed by a single verb meaning 'entering'?

Latin

Deinde convenit inter nos peccatum habituale per unum hominem in omnes homines intrasse, idque ipsa experientia confirmat; sed non convenit peccatum actuale per unum hominem in omnes homines intrasse; hoc enim pernegamus, neque potest probari. Nostra igitur interpretatio negari non potest, cum sit in confesso. Suam igitur qui nobis adversantur, probent interpretationem necesse est, antequam admitti aut possit aut debeat. Denique cum duo illi introeundi modi, quorum alter fingitur, alter est certus & confessus, prorsus sint diversi, alterque alterius respectu, vel nullus vel figuratus sit, qui potest tam diversa unum introeundi verbum semel usurpatum significare?

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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.

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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