On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §90

Cap. VIII: Through another only imputatively — or deny propagation

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Next, he says, from the words "through Adam's disobedience we are constituted sinners." For we cannot be constituted sinners through another's actual disobedience except imputatively: what belongs to another personally cannot become ours, nor can we be named from it, without imputation intervening. But through Adam's actual disobedience we are constituted sinners. Therefore imputatively. What is denying the propagation of inhering sin, if this is not?

Latin

Deinde, inquit, ex verbis per inobedientiam Adae peccatores constituimur. Nam per actualem alterius inobedientiam constitui non possumus peccatores, nisi imputative; quia quod alterius est personaliter, nostrum fieri nequit, neque nos inde denominari, nisi imputationis interventu. Atqui per actualem Adami inobedientiam constituimur peccatores. Ergo imputative. Quid est negare propagationem peccati inhaerentis, si hoc non est?

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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.

Catalogue & scope

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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