On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §604

Man. Post. Cap. IX: PLAC tip — Rom 5 conclude: propagated sin; each own; die by natural communion, not in Adam's person

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Let us conclude, then: when the same Apostle says that through one man sin entered the world, it is to be understood not as that singular actual sin which that one man committed, but as the sin born from him and spread and propagated into all men. And when it is said that all sinned in Adam (though he does not say that), it is to be understood that all sinned—not by that one singular actual sin of Adam imputed to them, but each by his own inborn and proper sin, which takes its origin from that of Adam. We die, then, in Adam—that is, by the force of the natural communion that joins us to Adam, not in Adam's own person; and we are made alive in Christ, not in the very person of Jesus Christ, but by the force of our supernatural communion with him: but of this again when we come to the Theses.

Latin

Concludamus igitur, cum idem Apostolus ait, per unum hominem peccatum in mundum introisse, intelligendum esse non singulare illud actuale peccatum quod unus ille homo commisit, sed peccatum ab illo natum, & in omnes homines sparsum ac propagatum: Et, cum ait, omnes peccasse in Adamo (quanquam id non dicit) intelligendum esse omnes peccasse, non uno illo singulari peccato actuali Adami illis imputato, sed suo quemque, sibi infito ac proprio peccato, quod ab illo Adami ducit originem. Morimur ergo in Adamo; id est, vi communionis naturalis quae nobis cum Adamo intercedit, non autem in ipsa Adami persona; & vivificamur in Christo, non in ipsa persona Iesu Christi, sed vi communionis nostrae supernaturalis cum ea: sed hac de re rursus cum ad Theses ventum fuerit.

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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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