On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §319 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 6: Rom 5 comparison; abstains where compared

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n those places where Christ is called our righteousness, no comparison is instituted between Adam and Christ: which if it had been instituted, as was done in Romans 5, who does not know whether Paul would have used that phrase by which he would teach that Adam is our sin, as Christ is our righteousness, even if not altogether on the same account. Argue from this: that where the Apostle institutes no comparison between Christ and Adam he uses that locution of Christ, but where he institutes some comparison between the two he abstains from it. Although, as I said, respect is had not to Scripture alone but also to all the theologians, who never use that locution of Adam.

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GAR. 2. Locis illis, ubi dicitur Christus justitia nostra, nulla inter Adamum & Christum instituitur comparatio: quae si instituta fuisset, ut factum est Roman. 5. quis nescit annon ea phrasi usurus fuerit Paulus, qua doceret Adamum esse peccatum nostrum, sicut Christus est justitia nostra, etsi non eadem omnino ratione. PLAC. Ego vero inde argumentor, quod ubi nullam instituit Apostolus comparationem Christi inter & Adamum usurpat illam de Christo locutionem, ubi autem aliquam inter utrumque instituit comparationem ab ea abstinet. Quanquam, ut dixi, non ad solam Scripturam, sed etiam ad Theologos omnes habetur respectus, qui locutionem illam nunquam usurpant de Adamo.

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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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