On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §213 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 4: On the breath of life, the tree of life, and death

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Chapter IV. Further observations and censures on the same chapter II.

I marked several points, Reverend and most beloved Brother in Christ, in the second chapter of your treatise. Allow me to answer some of them as well. You say things about the breath of life, the tree of life, and the death threatened to Adam. I neither approve those claims, nor see what they do for the thesis you set out to prove in that chapter—but once answered, they can help my case.

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CAPUT IV. Rursus quaedam observata & reprehensa in eodem Cap. II. Notavi quaedam, Reverende & dilectissime in Christo Frater, in secundo Capite Tui tractatus. Patere me etiam quaedam refellere. Dicis enim quaedam de spiraculo vitae, de ligno vitae, deque morte interminata Adamo, quae, nec probo, nec quid momenti ad id conferant, quod tu eo capite probare instituisti, satis assequor, refutata autem meam causam juvare possunt.

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Josué de la Place (Placeus) on the imputation of Adam's first sin: chapters 1 to 12 and 14, and the later disputation up to its chapter on Romans 5:14, from the Latin. The rest is not yet translated.

Josué de la Place (c. 1596–1655), known in Latin as Placeus, was pastor at Nantes and from 1633 professor of theology at the Academy of Saumur, the school of Cameron and Amyraut.

On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin argues the distinctive Saumur thesis: Adam's sin reaches his posterity only mediately, through the inherited corruption — never by immediate reckoning of a sin they did not commit. Fellow Reformed theologians rejected the view, but the book remains its classic statement.

Part only: Chapters 1–12 and 14, and the disputation up to Romans 5:14

Datec. 1645–1655 AD (written after the 1645 Synod of Charenton, and read in draft by Drelincourt by 10 December 1653; printed posthumously at Saumur, 1661; Reformed / Amyraldian circle)

The English is made from the 1661 Saumur Latin of chapters 1 to 12 and 14 and part of the later disputation. No earlier English was copied.

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