On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §634

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC tip — die actu ⇒ sinned actu; not Adam's act but original vitium inherent in each

From which I argue thus: Men die by act. Therefore they have sinned by act. For it is absurd that one who has sinned only in potency, not in act, should be punished in act—and with a most heavy penalty. And yet they did not sin by act in Adam when he sinned actually. There must therefore be another sin because of which men die by act: namely that original vice which is in all and each truly and properly, by act, inherently—as certainly by act as it was in Adam himself.

Latin

Unde sic argumentor: Moriuntur homines actu. Ergo peccaverunt actu. Absurdum enim est ut qui potentia tantum peccavit, non autem actu, puniatur actu, & quidem poena gravissima. Atqui non peccaverunt actu in Adamo cum peccavit actualiter. Aliud igitur sit oportet peccatum ob quod actu moriantur homines, nempe vitium illud originale, quo quod omnibus & singulis inest vere & proprie, actu, inhaerenter; tam certe actu quam fuit in ipso Adamo.

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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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