On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §465

Man. Post. Cap. VIII: anomia / blessed–miserable chain; unspoken minor we are not blessed

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You say the names by which the Psalmist called sins can signify that first rebellion of Adam, namely no less than Cain's murder, or the Israelite people's rebellion. You add that it is anomia, which word the Apostle used in citing this place: Be it so; what follows from that I do not yet understand: for the same may be said of Cain's murder, of the crime of Sodom, of Absalom's incest and rebellion, and finally of any other crime of anyone. But you yourself conclude something; let us hear you then. From there, you say, we ought to conclude according to the Apostle using the Prophet's words, that he is blessed to whom sins are not imputed, and consequently that he is miserable to whom sins are imputed, and since our whole misery is from Adam's first sin, if that sin is imputed to us, we are miserable, if on the contrary it is not imputed to us, we are blessed. You left us, I think, the minor to be subsumed: But we are not blessed: Therefore that sin is imputed to us.

Latin

Ais nomina, quibus Psaltes peccata nuncupavit, posse primam illam Adami rebellionem significare, nempe, haud minus, quam, vel Caini homicidium, vel populi Israelitici rebellionem. Adjicis eam esse ἀνομίαν, qua voce usus est Apostolus in citando hoc loco: Esto; quid inde sequatur nondum intelligo: idem enim de Caini homicidio, de Sodomorum crimine, de Absalomi incestum & rebellione, & denique de quovis alio cujusvis scelere dicere licet. Sed tu ipse aliquid concludis, te igitur audiamus. Inde, inquis, concludere debemus secundum Apostolum verbis Prophetae utentem, illum esse beatum cui peccata non imputantur, & ex consequenti, illum esse miserum cui peccata imputantur, & cum miseria nostra tota sit a peccato primo Adami, si peccatum illud nobis imputatur, nos esse miseros, si e contra nobis non imputetur, nos esse beatos. Tu nobis, opinor, subsumendum reliquisti, Atqui non sumus beati: Ergo nobis peccatum illud imputatur.

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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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