On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §512 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: Did our sins enter Christ as Adam's sin enters us

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Why then may I not say that our sins enter into Christ, when Scripture says they came into Christ? The Lord made the iniquities of us all to come, or to fall upon him. Isaiah 53. 6. And likewise, that Adam's sin elthein upon us, came upon us, because we bear its guilt, that is, because it has been imputed to us? And so although to enter simply put is not the same as to impute, yet for sin to enter, or to come upon someone, if the matter or place where the phrase is held so requires, can be the same as for that sin to be imputed to him.

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Quidni ergo dixerim peccata nostra in Christum εἰσελθεῖν, cum Scriptura dicat, ea venisse in Christum? Dominus fecit venire, vel incurrere in eum iniquitates omnium nostrum. Esai. LIII. 6. Et similiter, peccatum Adae in nos ἐλθεῖν, in nos venisse, quia eius reatum sustinemus, id est, quia illud imputatum nobis est? Itaque quanquam introire simpliciter positum, non sit idem quod imputare, tamen peccatum introire, vel venire in aliquem, si res aut locus, ubi phrasis habetur, ita exigit, potest idem esse quod peccatum illud ipsi imputari.

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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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