On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §420 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 7: not simply concede; Ezek 21 sword cuts just and wicked

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against that solution one must go further in considering this Abrahamic deprecation. We say, then, that it is not to be conceded simply and absolutely that it wholly abhors God's justice that the just, or personally innocent, should sometimes be involved in the same penalty with the unjust and criminal, however much Abraham takes from that the argument of his plea. 1. because God himself testifies in express and clear words that he sometimes does the contrary. For so he addresses his prophet, Ezek. 21:8–9: Say to the land of Israel, Thus says Jehovah; behold, I will draw my sword from its sheath, that I may cut off from you the just and the wicked: that I may cut off from you the just and the wicked: therefore my sword shall go forth from its sheath against all flesh from the South to the North.

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GAR. Verum ad istam solutionem, progrediendum est ulterius in deprecationis huius Abrahamicae consideratione. Dicimus ergo non esse simpliciter & absolute concedendum, abhorrere omnino a justitia Dei ut justi sive personaliter innocentes eadem aliquando poena involvantur cum injustis & criminosis, quantumvis inde suae deprecationis argumentum desumat Abrahamus. 1. quia Deus ipse expressis & disertis verbis testatur se contrarium aliquando facere. Ita enim Prophetam suum alloquitur, Ezech. XXI. 8. 9. Dic terrae Israelis, Sic ait Jehovah; ecce ego exeram gladium meum e vagina sua, ut exscindam ex te justum & improbum: ut exscindam ex te justum & improbum: idcirco prodibit gladius meus e vagina sua contra omnem carnem a Meridie ad Aquilonem.

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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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