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On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §490

Man. Post. Cap. IX: Placeus syllogism; Beza ἡ ἁμαρτία; tip before GAR

I prove mine thus. If any sin the Apostle teaches in Rom. 5. was communicated by Adam with all humans, that certainly is what he teaches entered the world through Adam, and through it death, so that death passed through unto all humans. But that sin which he teaches entered into the world through Adam, and through it death, is hereditary corruption, not however Adam's actual sin taken precisely. Therefore if the Apostle teaches any sin, as he truly does, communicated by Adam with all humans, that certainly is hereditary corruption, not however Adam's actual sin. You will not deny the Major: for it is manifest. Certainly the sin through which he says death entered into the world, that is, as he himself exposes, and you after him, into all humans, is that to which he nearest ascribes the death and condemnation of the human race. I prove the Minor. The first reason the very name of sin he hamartia supplies me: for so (as the most learned Beza noted on this verse) the Apostle is accustomed to refer to that as a hereditary disease: so much so that scarcely in Paul with the article added does it declare anything else. But a hereditary disease is not Adam's actual sin, but corruption, and vice arisen from it.

Latin

Ego meam sic probo. Si quod peccatum Apostolus docet Rom. v. fuisse ab Adamo cum omnibus hominibus communicatum, illud profecto est, quod per Adamum docet in mundum introiisse, & per id mortem, ita ut mors in omnes homines pertransierit. Atqui peccatum illud, quod docet per Adamum in mundum introiisse, & per id mortem, est corruptio haereditaria, non autem peccatum actuale Adami praecise sumptum. Ergo si aliquod peccatum Apostolus docet, uti revera docet, ab Adamo cum omnibus hominibus communicatum, illud profecto est corruptio haereditaria, non autem peccatum actuale Adami. Maiorem non negabis: est enim manifesta. Certe peccatum per quod ait mortem introiisse in mundum, hoc est, ut ipse exponit, & tu post eum, in omnes homines, est illud cui proxime generis humani mortem & condemnationem ascribit. Minorem probo. Primam rationem mihi ministrat ipsum nomen peccati ἡ ἁμαρτία: sic enim (ut doctissimus Beza ad hunc versum notavit) vocare solet Apostolus morbum illum haereditarium: adeo quidem ut vix apud Paulum addito articulo aliud declaret. Morbus autem haereditarius non est peccatum actuale Adami, sed corruptio, & vitium ab illo ortum.

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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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