On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §494 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: ἀχώριστα; — remission lifts imputation

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ince the imputation of the first sin, and hereditary corruption, are inseparable, even here we do not deny that by the name of sin, by logical necessity corruption can be understood. Y were inseparable, as long as corruption remains, so long would imputation remain: which fights with the opinion of all theologians, as many as are not Pelagians. For imputation is taken away by the remission of original sin, which is done, not so that it may not be, but so that it may no longer be imputed. But if by the name of the sin which entered into the world through one man hereditary corruption is understood, by what argument will those who oppose us in this cause prove that actual sin is understood which was not made ours except by imputation? For that inhering sin must be understood, and the name hamartia with the article, both the authority of the greatest theologians, and the adversaries' confession, sufficiently confirm.

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GAR. 2. Cum imputatio primi peccati, & corruptio haereditaria, sint ἀχώριστα, etiam hic peccati nomine, ex vi consequentiae, intelligi posse corruptionem illam, non inficiamur. PLAC. Si essent ἀχώριστα, quandiu manet corruptio, tandiu maneret imputatio: id quod cum omnium Theologorum sententia, quotquot non sunt Pelagiani, pugnat. Tollitur enim imputatio remissione peccati originalis, quae fit, non ut ne sit, sed ut ne imputetur amplius. Quod si peccati quod per unum hominem introiit in mundum nomine corruptio haereditaria intelligitur, quo argumento probabunt illi, qui nobis in hac causa adversantur, peccatum actuale intelligi quod nostrum non sit factum nisi per imputationem? Nam intelligendum esse peccatum inhaerens & nomen ἁμαρτία cum articulo, & maximorum theologorum autoritas, & confessio Adversariorum satis confirmant.

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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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