On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §441

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: interdict vs threat — as Adam only, or as distinct persons?

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I should like to know how the interdict looked to us—whether insofar as we are persons distinct from Adam's person, or only insofar as we were nothing other than Adam himself? For then certainly no part of us existed, indeed not even the seed from which we were begotten, indeed not even the seed from which our hundredth parent sprang. You will not say the former. If you affirm the latter, what reason is there why the interdict should not have looked to us, with respect to that time, except insofar as we were nothing but Adam himself—yet you want the threat joined to the interdict to look to us insofar as we are persons diverse and separate from Adam? For my part I do not understand why the interdict should pertain to us in one way, the threat in another.

Latin

Scire velim quomodo ad nos interdictum spectabat, utrum quatenus sumus personae distinctae a persona Adami, an duntaxat quatenus nihil aliud eramus quam ipse Adamus? nostri enim tunc certe pars nulla erat, immo ne semen quidem unde procreati sumus, immo ne semen quidem ex quo centesimus a nobis parens noster ortus est. Prius non dixeris. Posterius si affirmas, quid est quamobrem ad nos non spectaverit interdictum, illius temporis respectu, nisi quatenus eramus nihil nisi ipse Adamus, velis autem comminationem adjunctam interdicto ad nos spectare quatenus personae sumus ab Adamo diversae & separatae? Equidem non intelligo cur ad nos alio modo interdictum, alio comminatio pertineat.

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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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