On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §277

Man. Post. Cap. VI: body/republic metaphor; GAR Socrates/Crassus

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Do you want all men to be considered as one republic, one body, whose head is Adam, and the remaining men each members? Then Adam was a head without a body, as we today are members without a head. GAR. This kind of reasoning, if it had come into L. Crassus's mind in that dissertation which he held with Q. Mucius Scaevola in Cicero, On the Orator, book 1, he could not by a plausible argument have turned aside Scaevola's saying that calls Socrates the fountain and head of the philosophers who in a long series flourished in Greece after Socrates was removed from human affairs—namely, because Socrates before those philosophers were born would have been a fountain without streams and a head without members; and those philosophers after Socrates would have been streams without a fountain and members without a head.

Latin

Visne omnes homines considerari ut unam rempublicam, unum corpus, cujus caput sit Adamus, reliqui autem homines singuli membra? Fuit igitur Adamus caput sine corpore, ut nos hodie membra sine capite. GAR. Hoc rationis genus, si L. Crasso venisset in mentem ea dissertatione quam habuit cum Q. Mutio Scaevola apud Tullium lib. 1. de Oratore, non poterat ille plausibili argumento dictum Scaevolae traducere, Socratem vocantis fontem & caput Philosophorum, qui longa serie post exemptum humanis Socratem in Graecia floruerunt: nimirum, quia & Socrates ante natos illos Philosophos fons fuisset sine rivulis, & caput sine membris; & illi post Socratem Philosophi, rivi fuissent absque fonte, & membra sine capite.

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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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