On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §119

Cap. X: Bellarmine — in/cum Adamo peccasse; figurative speech / deny if = imputation

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Unless we grant, he says, that we truly sinned in Adam and with Adam, there is no way to explain how newborn infants bear any true guilt, and this Catholic dogma will look not merely above reason but against it. Before we go further: what does it mean to sin in and with Adam? The phrase has to be figurative. Perhaps it means Adam's sin is imputed to us. Take that reading, and I deny the proposition.

Latin

Nisi ponamus, inquit, nos in Adamo, & cum Adamo vere peccasse, nulla ratione explicari poterit, quomodo in parvulis recens natis sit aliqua vera culpa, & hoc Catholicum dogma, non tam supra rationem, quam contra rationem esse videbitur. Antequam progrediamur, quid est in & cum Adamo peccare? Figuratam enim profecto locutionem esse oportet. Fortasse est nobis Adami peccatum imputari. Hoc posito, propositionem illam nego.

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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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