On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §440

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: even if bound when nonexistent — obeyed; ate in Adam not in us

But grant that that interdict bound us to obedience for that time when we did not yet exist, when Adam alone was in paradise with his wife—what did it require of us? That we should not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? We obeyed: for those who at that time could not eat certainly did not eat. We ate, you will say, in Adam. Well and good: therefore we did not eat in ourselves. Since therefore in one Adam we ate that fruit, it was fitting that we also be punished in one Adam: and since we did not eat in our own persons, we ought not to have been punished in our own persons.

Latin

Sed fac interdictum illud nos ad obedientiam obligasse pro eo tempore quo nondum eramus, quo solus erat cum uxore in paradiso Adamus, quid a nobis requirebat? Ut ne ederemus de fructu arboris scientiae boni & mali? Paruimus: nam qui edere tum temporis non poteramus, profecto non edimus. Edimus, inquies, in Adamo. Bene habet: non igitur edimus in nobis. Quandoquidem igitur in uno Adamo manducavimus illum fructum, decuit nos etiam puniri in uno Adamo: ac cum in nostris personis non manducaverimus, non oportuit nos puniri in nostris personis.

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. 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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