On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §500 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: justification scope prefers Adam's actual

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e the Apostle here treats the cause of justification, not of sanctification, it is no wonder if from his primary intention he wished here rather to look at Adam's actual sin than at that corruption that remains, since the sin committed by Adam, and the guilt that follows from it, answers to the righteousness of Christ, and to our justification through it: but internal corruption answers not properly to that righteousness of Christ, but rather to the holiness remaining in us through the Holy Spirit. Which corruption, although here also because of that connection we have named it can be comprehended, yet does not directly regard the Apostolic aim, as in what follows Paul will treat of it openly.

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GAR. Cum causam justificationis, non sanctificationis hic tractet Apostolus, nihil mirum est, si ex primaria sua intentione hic potius peccatum actuale Adami, quam corruptionem illam inhaerentem spectare voluerit, cum peccatum ab Adamo patratum, reatus ex illo consequens, respondeat justitiae Christi, & justificationi per eam nostrae: corruptio vero interna, non illi Christi justitiae proprie, sed potius inhaerenti per Spiritum Sanctum in nobis sanctitati respondeat. Qua corruptio quanquam hic etiam propter illam quam diximus connexionem comprehendi potest, non tamen Apostolicum scopum directe respicit, sicut in sequentibus de illa aperte agetur a Paulo.

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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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