On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §530 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: Paul's scope: evils from first Adam, goods from second

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For the Apostle's aim is to teach what evils from the first Adam, what goods by contrast from the second Adam, flowed into the human race, so that we may understand it is not wonderful, when one man was so powerful to destroy us, that one man, Jesus Christ, can save us. And so he accurately compares the goods proceeded from this one into us with the evils proceeded from that one. Who therefore would believe that he wished to pass over in silence that evil which it is agreed both is derived from Adam into us, and is the cause of all our sins?

Latin

Scopus enim Apostoli est docere quae mala a primo Adamo, quae contra bona a secundo Adamo in genus humanum fluxerint, ut intelligamus mirum non esse, cum unus homo ad nos perdendos tam potens fuerit, unum hominem, Iesum Christum, nos posse servare. Itaque bona ab hoc in nos profecta malis ab illo profectis accurate comparat. Quis igitur credat eum voluisse id malum silentio praeterire, quod constat & ex Adamo in nos derivari, & causam omnium nostrorum peccatorum esse?

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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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