On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §283 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 6: affected ignorance (Job); modestia

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indeed I also first profess that I prefer to believe that this is not the affected ignorance of which those speak in Job chapter 21 verse 14—'Depart from us; we do not want the knowledge of your ways'—rather than to foster some sinister opinion of the learned man. Andle, I ask, did I give by those words for fostering a sinister opinion of me, or what is there in this modest and religious ignorance of mine, by which I refuse to be wise beyond Scripture, like to the abominable impiety of those criminals in Job?

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GAR. Hic vero inprimis ego quoque profiteor, malle me credere, hanc non esse affectatam ignorantiam, de qua dicunt illi apud Jobum cap. 21. 14. Recede a nobis, scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus, quam sinistram aliquam de Viro docto opinionem fovere. PLAC. Ecquam quaeso verbis illis sinistram de me opinionem fovendi ansam praebui, aut quid est in mea ista modesta & religiosa ignorantia, qua nolo sapere praeter Scripturam, simile abominandae illorum apud Jobum sceleratorum impietati?

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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)

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