On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §517

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC — action ≠ reatus; relation cannot transfer the act

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PLAC. But 1. action is one thing, reatus another. That is an action, this a relation, that passes, this remains. Is it then, if reatus is rightly said to enter, rightly also said that the action enters? Can whatever is said of reatus also be said of the action? Is action a relation? Does it remain after the action has passed? Does it follow the action? 2. It is one thing to be held guilty because of an action, another for the reatus of the action to enter into someone: that signifies only an external denomination, this imports something more. Nay the reatus itself, since it is a relation, cannot be said to enter, except either by reason of the foundation, that is, of sin whether it be action or habit, or of the term, that is, of penalty, so far is it from it that by reason of reatus the action can be said to enter into another.

Latin

PLAC. Atqui 1. aliud est actio, aliud reatus. Illa est actio, haec relatio, illa transit, hoc manet. Num igitur si reatus recte dicitur introire, recte etiam dicitur introire actio? Num quicquid dicitur de reatu, dici etiam potest de actione? Num actio est relatio? num manet postquam actio transiit? num sequitur actionem? 2. Aliud est propter actionem reum haberi, aliud reatum actionis introire in aliquem: illud externam tantum denominationem significat, hoc aliquid importat amplius. Imo ipse reatus, cum sit relatio, introire dici non potest, nisi aut ratione fundamenti, hoc est, peccati sive sit actio, sive habitus, aut termini, hoc est, poenae, tantum abest ut ratione reatus actio dici possit in alium introire.

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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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