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On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §93

Cap. IX: Anselm — infants bear their own sin, not Adam's

"They do not bear" — infants who are not saved — "Adam's sin, but their own. For Adam's sin was one thing, the infants' another, because they differ as has been said. That was the cause; this is the effect." And a little later: "When the Apostle says what I set down above, that death reigned from Adam to Moses even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, just as he signifies that the infant's sin is less than Adam's, so he plainly shows that it is another. Therefore when an infant is damned for original sin, he is damned not for Adam's sin, but for his own. For if he himself did not have his own sin, he would not be damned. So then he does not bear Adam's iniquity, but his own — even if he is therefore said to bear it, because that iniquity of that sin was the cause of this."

Latin

Non portant (infantes qui non servantur) peccatum Adae sed suum. Nam aliud fuit peccatum Adae, aliud infantum, quia differunt ut dictum est. Illud enim fuit causa, istud est effectus. Et paulo post. Cum dicit Apostolus, quod supra posui, quia mors regnavit ab Adam usque ad Mosem, etiam in eos qui non peccaverunt in similitudinem praevaricationis Adae, sicut significat infantum minus esse quam Adae peccatum, ita aperte monstrat aliud esse. Quapropter cum damnatur infans pro peccato originali, damnatur non pro peccato Adae, sed pro suo. Nam si ipse non haberet suum peccatum, non damnaretur. Ita ergo non portat iniquitatem Adae sed suam, quamvis ideo dicatur portare, quia iniquitas illius peccati istius causa fuit.

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English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. 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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