On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §357 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 6: not Scripture's usual reference; only reconcilable sense

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it is not asked in this place what Scripture is accustomed to refer to God's judgment. For, as I have already observed, it has in no place referred the propagation of original sin to God's judgment. It is asked only in what sense, Scripture not resisting, and reason allowing, it can be referred. Certainly I see no other sense that can be reconciled with Scripture and right reason besides that which I have set out in this place and at the end of cap. 12 and a little before the middle of cap. 13 of this same Manuscript.

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PLAC. Primum non quaeritur hoc loco quid soleat Scriptura ad Dei judicium referre. Non enim, ut iam observavi, ullo loco propagationem originalis peccati ad Dei judicium retulit. Quaeritur tantum quo sensu non repugnante Scriptura, & rationi possit referri. Alium certe sensum, qui cum Scriptura & recta ratione conciliari possit, non video, praeter eum, quem hoc loco & in fine cap. 12. & paulo ante medium cap. 13. huius ipsius Manuscripti exposui.

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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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