On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §54

Cap. VII: Quarta ratio — Apostle's scope and the safeguard that all have sinned

The fourth reason follows. The Apostle's scope will not allow them to be turned that way; for the Apostle began at verse 12 (Romans 5:12) to institute a comparison between Christ and Adam in such a manner as to affirm that through one man sin entered, and through sin death, so that death spread abroad upon all men. But because it could seem strange that there was so great force and efficacy in one man's one sin that it should sentence the whole multitude of men to death, lest anyone should suspect anything unworthy of God, he adds that this ought not to seem strange, since all have sinned. As therefore Adam fell into death because he sinned, so also all alike fall into death because all have sinned.

Latin

Sequitur ratio quarta. Scopus Apostoli non patitur ut ita vertantur; coepit enim Apostolus vers. 12. comparationem inter Christum & Adamum instituere eo modo, ut affirmaret per unum hominem peccatum introiisse, & per peccatum mortem, adeo ut mors in omnes homines pervagata sit. Quia vero mirum videri potuit, tantam fuisse in unius hominis uno peccato vim atque efficacitatem, ut totam hominum multitudinem morti addiceret, ne quis indigne quicquam de Deo suspicaretur, addit, id mirum videri non debere, cum omnes peccaverint. Ut igitur Adam in mortem incidit, quia peccavit; sic & omnes pariter in mortem incidunt, quia omnes peccaverunt.

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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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