On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §203

Man. Post. Cap. II: similitudes — cannot refuse; condition worsened

A punished person cannot choose to take the penalty, refuse it, or cast it off. We are hit by this corruption from another in the same way: refusing or casting it off is not in our power. A penalty also worsens the state of the one it strikes. Stained by this corruption, Adam became worse—more ignoble, fouler, more wretched—than he would have been without it.

Latin

Ut non est in ejus qui punitur potestate poenam admittere, vel non admittere aut etiam excutere, sic ab alio corruptione ista afficimur, nec in nobis situm est eam non admittere, aut excutere. Ut poena ejus cui infligitur conditionem mutat in deteriorem, sic hac corruptione inquinatus Adamus deterior, ignobilior, foedior, miserior, quam alioqui fuisset, evasit.

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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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