On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §66

Cap. VIII: Type major limited — better argue from type to antitype

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Next, this argument can be dissolved without any trouble. For as to the major: the proposition "What is exhibited in the thing represented by a type must have preceded in the type" needs this limitation — if, that is, the type was set up to represent that thing. For otherwise often many things have been exhibited in the represented matter which could not be represented by one type; and for that reason several have been employed to sketch the same thing. Then even when that limitation is applied, the proposition is not true except so far as the nature of the thing which is the type can bear, the difference between Type and antitype (τὸ ἀντίτυπον), shadow and body, being kept. Therefore argumentation from the type to the thing shadowed is better than from this latter back to the former.

Latin

Deinde nullo negotio dissolvi potest hoc argumentum. Ad majorem enim quod attinet, propositio, Quod in re per typum representata exhibetur, illud in typo praecessisse oportuit. Eget hac limitatione, si nempe ad id representandum typus fuit comparatus. Nam alioqui saepenumero multa in re representata exhibita fuerunt, quae non potuerunt uno typo representari; quapropter multi ad eandem rem adumbrandam adhibiti sunt. Deinde etiam adhibita illa limitatione propositio vera non est, nisi quantum pati potest ejus rei, quae typus est, natura, servata inter Typum & τὸ ἀντίτυπον, umbram & corpus differentia. Itaque melior est a typo ad rem adumbratam, quam ab hac ad illam argumentatio.

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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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