On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §505

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — entered by propagation; leprosy analogy; Non entis

Who also, unless he is a Pelagian, does not understand that sin entered into humans by natural propagation as soon as we are begotten, and therefore was not brought from outside into those already born? namely it is said to have entered into us, because it truly is inside us, and yet is not from creation, or from human nature itself, but from elsewhere, from the serpent's temptation and the first man's actual sin. And so truly through one man that vice entered into human nature where before it was not, nor ought to be, and together with nature into us all, which cannot be said of actual sin. What therefore is innate, if it is not from nature, nothing can prohibit that it be said to have entered through parents into children. So it can be said that through a parent leprosy or gout entered into children, although leprosy is in the children from birth. Not indeed earlier in time, but earlier yet by nature we were than we were corrupt. For corruption of nature cannot but be later than nature itself. But if we were not earlier than we were corrupt, and corruption follows, There are no accidents of a non-being.

Latin

Quis etiam, nisi sit Pelagianus, non intelligit peccatum intrasse in homines propagatione naturali simul ac gignimur, ac proinde in genitos non fuisse foris delatum? nempe dicitur in nos intrasse, quia revera intra nos est, nec tamen est a creatione, aut ab ipsa humana natura, sed aliunde, a tentatione serpentis & peccato primi hominis actuali. Itaque revera per unum hominem vitium illud in naturam humanam ubi antea non erat, nec esse debebat, intravit, & una cum natura in nos omnes, id quod de peccato actuali dici non potest. Quod igitur innatum est, id si non est a natura, quominus per parentes in liberos introiisse dicatur, nihil potest prohibere. Sic potest dici per parentem in liberos lepra aut podagra intraisse, quamvis lepra insit liberis ab ortu. Non quidem prius tempore, at prius tamen natura fuimus quam corrupti fuimus. Non potest enim corruptio naturae non esse posterior ipsa natura. Caeterum si prius non fuimus quam corrupti fuimus, & corruptio sequitur, Non entis nulla sunt accidentia.

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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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