On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §388 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 7: Amaziah and Ezekiel show each dies for his own sin

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And lest you except the crime of unfaithfulness or of lese-majesty, Scripture stands in the way, 2 Chr. 25:3. Amaziah killed his servants who had struck the King his father: but their sons he did not put to death: but he did as it is written in the law that Jehovah commanded, saying, fathers shall not die for sons and sons shall not die for fathers, but each shall die for his own sin. What of this—that God himself, vindicating his justice from the Jews' calumnies, prescribed what we ought to think of it? The soul, he says, that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the father's iniquity, the father shall not bear the son's iniquity, &c.

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Ac ne crimen infidelitatis, vel laesae majestatis excipias, obstat Scriptura, 2. Chr. 25. 3. Amazia interfecit servos suos qui percusserant Regem patrem suum: filios vero eorum non affecit morte: sed fecit sicut scriptum est in lege praecepisse Jehovam dicendo, ne moriuntor patres pro filiis & filii ne moriuntor pro patribus, sed quisque propter peccatum suum moriuntor. Quid quod ipse Deus vindicans suam justitiam a Judaeorum calumniis quid sit nobis de ea sentiendum praescripsit? Anima, inquit, quae peccat ipsa morietur. Filius non feret iniquitatem patris, pater non feret iniquitatem filii &c.

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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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