On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §549 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: Christ surety is not Adam; we were not bound to sin as to satisfy

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As for Christ's satisfaction, when we are said to have satisfied in Christ, nothing else seems to me to be understood, except that Christ in our place satisfied for us: did Adam therefore likewise in our place sin for us? Each of us was bound to satisfy for himself. That was impossible for us. Christ, who was not bound, constituted himself our surety, and satisfied for us. Can the same be said of us and of Adam? Were we bound to sin? Did Adam constitute himself our surety, that he might sin for us?

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Ad satisfactionem Christi quod attinet, cum dicimur in Christo satisfecisse, nihil aliud intelligi mihi videtur, nisi Christum loco nostro pro nobis satisfecisse: num igitur similiter Adamus loco nostro pro nobis peccavit? Tenebamur pro se quisque satisfacere. Id erat nobis impossibile. Christus, qui non tenebatur, vadem nostrum sese constituit, & pro nobis satisfecit. Potestne idem de nobis & Adamo dici? Tenebamurne peccare? num sese Adamus vadem nostrum constituit, ut pro nobis peccaret?

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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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