On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §538 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: Death here is the penalty threatened to Adam

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You see the Apostle's first words, which are the basis of those that follow; but of them at least I detect no vestige in your treatise. What if I from there elicit something adverse to your opinion. Will you grant me that by death in this place is to be understood that death which the law had threatened to Adam, namely the penalty, and the wages of sin? I do not see by what right you can deny that, especially since you hold that that law regards the whole human race, and that Adam, as God had threatened, died. You will at least grant that death in this place signifies the penalty of the sin which entered into the world.

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Vides prima verba Apostoli, quae sequentium sunt basis; at eorum saltem nullius vestigium deprehendo in tuo tractatu. Quid si ego inde aliquid eliciam sententiae tuae adversum. Dabisne mihi per mortem hoc loco intelligendam esse eam mortem, quam lex Adamo fuerat comminata, poenam scilicet, & stipendium peccati? non video quo iure id negare possis, praesertim cum sentias eam legem ad totum genus humanum spectare, & Adamum, prout Deus minatus fuerat, mortuum esse. Dabis saltem mortem hoc loco significare poenam peccati, quod in mundum introiit.

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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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