On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §171

Man. Post. Cap. II §XIV: Garissoles — primi peccati naming removes homonymy

Garissoles: But if there were any homonymy or ambiguity in the word "Adam's sin," it is wholly removed once we name the imputation of Adam's first sin. Anyone can see for himself that, though Adam had many sins, the question concerns the one that was first among them—nothing earlier in the human race. Where number or order is in view, everyone understands by "first" that from which the series begins, and before which nothing stands in that order. So the reader did not need to be tangled in these subtleties of distinction—that is, more disturbed than taught.

Latin

GAR. Quod si aliqua esset in voce peccati Adae, homonymia & ambiguitas, illa tamen omnino sublata est, cum imputatio primi peccati Adae nuncupatur. Ita enim unusquisque per se facile intelligere potest, cum plura fuerint Adami peccata, de uno illo quaeri, quod inter omnia primum fuit, & quo non aliud est in genere humano prius. Ubi enim de numero vel ordine agitur, primum illud dici omnes intelligunt, unde ducitur numeri ordinisque principium, & quo prius nihil est in illo ordine. Itaque non erat hic istis distinctionum argutiis distinguendus, id est obturbandus magis, quam instruendus Lector.

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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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