On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §495 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: The sin that entered the world is inherited corruption

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A second reason the following words supply me, eis ton kosmon eiselthe, entered into the world. But that by the world all humans are understood, since you and almost all interpreters confess it, there is no need to prove. I reason therefore thus: The sin which entered through Adam into all humans is not Adam's actual sin, but hereditary corruption. But the Apostle speaks of the sin which entered through Adam into all humans. Therefore he speaks not of Adam's actual sin, but of hereditary corruption.

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Secundam rationem mihi suppeditant verba sequentia, εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθε in mundum introiit. Per mundum autem omnes homines intelligi cum tu & fere omnes interpretes fateamini, nihil opus est probare. Sic igitur ratiocinor, Peccatum, quod per Adamum in omnes homines introiit, non est peccatum actuale Adami, sed corruptio haereditaria. Atqui Apostolus loquitur de peccato quod per Adamum in omnes homines introiit. Ergo loquitur non de peccato actuali Adami, sed de corruptione haereditaria.

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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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