On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §570

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — serio: John 8:58 reductio shows immediate imputation absurd

here woven jokes or commas? Nay, in earnest, most of all, I say, I have argued in earnest, and have uncovered the absurdity of immediate imputation. For what jest is there in this argument? From which opinion it follows that each one of us can say of himself what Christ said of himself, Before Abraham was, I am—that is false and absurd. But that follows from the opinion by which we are said to have truly and properly sinned, and so to have been then when Adam was still in the earthly paradise. Therefore that opinion is false and absurd. When I so argue, do I seem to you, Reader, to jest, and to abuse Scripture for a joke? I do not think so. Yet the words I have used contain nothing else than this argument.

Latin

PLAC. Ego ne hic iocos aut commata nexui? Imo serio, maxime, inquam, serio argumentatus sum, imputationisque immediatae absurditatem revelavi. Quid enim est ioci in hoc argumento? Ex qua opinione sequitur, unumquemque nostrum posse idem de semetipso dicere quod de se Christus dixit, Antequam Abraham fieret ego sum, illa est falsa & absurda. Id autem sequitur, ex opinione qua dicimur vere & proprie peccasse, atque adeo fuisse tunc cum Adamus esset adhuc in paradiso terrestri. Ergo illa opinio est falsa & absurda. Cum sic argumentor, videorne tibi, Lector, iocari, & ad iocum abuti Scriptura? Non arbitror. Nihil tamen aliud verba quibus sum usus continent quam hoc argumentum.

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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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