On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §525 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: death entered really; many deaths, not Adam's alone

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To this is added that the Apostle says that through this sin death entered into the world. Entry into the world is a common attribute of sin and of death. Both entered into the world, but sin of itself, death through sin. But death entered in very deed, not by imputation, and the death which entered into the world is not the death of one Adam, but as manyfold as there are humans. Since therefore it is agreed there is a sin, namely hereditary corruption, which entered into the world in exactly the same way, what is there why we should not understand that in this place rather than that which corresponds to death neither by entry into the world, nor by number?

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Huc accedit quod Apostolus ait per hoc peccatum mortem introiisse in mundum. Introitus in mundum commune est peccati & mortis attributum. Utrumque in mundum introiit, sed peccatum per se, mors per peccatum. Mors autem introiit reapse, non imputatione, & mors quae introiit in mundum non est mors unius Adami, sed totuplex quot sunt homines. Cum ergo constet esse peccatum, nempe corruptionem haereditariam, quod eodem prorsus modo introierit in mundum, quid est, cur id hoc loco non intelligamus potius, quam id quod neque introitu in mundum, neque numero morti correspondeat?

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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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