On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §663

Man. Post. Cap. X: PLAC twist — Adam’s first actual sin is not the sin that lasted until the law

But I will turn this same argument against you by another reason, which will not lean on the prior dispute, but will strengthen it by its own weight, and that a heavy and momentous one.

That sin of which the Apostle speaks in the immediately preceding verse is that sin which was in the world until the law, as you rightly proved.

But the first actual sin of Adam is not that sin which was in the world until the law.

Therefore the first actual sin of Adam is not that sin of which the Apostle speaks in the immediately preceding verse, and so is not that sin which entered into the world—that is, on your interpretation, into us—and by which all men sinned.

Latin

Verum ego alia ratione hoc idem argumentum in te torquebo, quae non nitetur superiori disputatione, sed eam suo proprio pondere augeat, eoque gravi & momentoso. Peccatum illud, de quo loquitur Apostolus versu immediate praecedente, est peccatum illud quod fuit in mundo usque ad legem, ut recte probasti. Atqui peccatum primum actuale Adami non est peccatum illud quod fuit in mundo usque ad legem. Ergo peccatum primum actuale Adami non est peccatum illud de quo loquitur Apostolus versu immediate praecedenti, ac proinde non est peccatum illud quod in mundum, id est, te interprete in nos, introiit, & quo omnes homines peccaverunt.

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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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