On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §209

Man. Post. Cap. III: non urgeor — culpa common by propagation; vitium; not properly poena

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These absurdities do not press me. I hold that the guilt is as common to all as the penalty—common in the thing itself, not by imputation but by propagation—and that it is imputed to us because it is within us. That guilt is the original vice inhering in each of us. I refuse to call that vice a penalty in the proper sense, for reasons I will open in the next chapter.

Latin

His ego absurdis non urgeor, qui culpam volo esse tam communem omnibus, quam poenam: communem inquam reapse, non imputatione sed propagatione, ac nobis imputari, quia intra nos est. Culpa autem illa est vitium originale nobis singulis inhaerens, quam ipsam nolo proprie loquendo poenam esse ob eas causas, quas mox aperiam cap. sequente.

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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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