On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §530

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — Paul's scope: evils from first Adam, goods from second

For the Apostle's aim is to teach what evils from the first Adam, what goods by contrast from the second Adam, flowed into the human race, so that we may understand it is not wonderful, when one man was so powerful to destroy us, that one man, Jesus Christ, can save us. And so he accurately compares the goods proceeded from this one into us with the evils proceeded from that one. Who therefore would believe that he wished to pass over in silence that evil which it is agreed both is derived from Adam into us, and is the cause of all our sins?

Latin

Scopus enim Apostoli est docere quae mala a primo Adamo, quae contra bona a secundo Adamo in genus humanum fluxerint, ut intelligamus mirum non esse, cum unus homo ad nos perdendos tam potens fuerit, unum hominem, Iesum Christum, nos posse servare. Itaque bona ab hoc in nos profecta malis ab illo profectis accurate comparat. Quis igitur credat eum voluisse id malum silentio praeterire, quod constat & ex Adamo in nos derivari, & causam omnium nostrorum peccatorum esse?

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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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