On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §506 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: Amyraut: Christ's justice said to enter

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t is not more absurd if it is said that sin, or Adam's singular action, entered, than if it is said that Christ's righteousness entered. But so speaks the distinguished Amyraut in a paraphrase of this verse: through one man who is Jesus Christ, true righteousness was introduced into the world, which is said of imputed righteousness no less than of inhering. To those whom it does not displease if imputed righteousness is said to be introduced or to enter, why should it not please, if imputed sin also is said to enter?

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GAR. 2. Non est absurdius si dicatur peccatum, aut actio singularis Adae introiisse, quam si dicatur Christi justitia introisse. At ita loquitur Clar. Amyr. in paraphrasi huius versus, per unum hominem qui Iesus Christus est, vera justitia introducta est in mundum, quod de justitia imputata, non minus quam de inhaerente dicitur. Quibus non displicet si dicatur justitia imputata introduci vel intrare, quidni placeat, si dicatur etiam, peccatum imputatum introire?

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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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