On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §458

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: serpent as cause of common evil — not the evil itself

What of this—that it even supplies me arms fatal to that imputation of yours? For I reason thus. That against which a common remedy is set is either the common evil itself or the cause why the evil is common. In this place the common remedy is set against the serpent; and the serpent is not itself the common evil. Therefore the serpent is the cause why the evil is common.

Latin

Quid quod mihi arma ministrat tuae isti imputationi funesta? Sic enim ratiocinor. Id cui remedium commune opponitur, vel est ipsum commune malum vel causa cur sit malum commune. Opponitur hoc loco remedium commune serpenti; nec est serpens ipsum commune malum. Ergo serpens est causa cur sit malum commune.

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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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