On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §552 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: In Hebrew usage, to sin can mean to be held guilty

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As when Judah, about to take Benjamin with him into Egypt, addresses his father Jacob thus, Genesis XLIII. I pledge for him; of my hand require him: If I do not bring him back to you, and set him before you, I shall altogether have sinned against you all my days, that is, I shall be guilty to you, and shall be held by you for a criminal: So Bathsheba to David, 1 Kings I. 21. when the lord king sleeps with his fathers, I and my son Solomon shall be sinners; that is, it shall be dealt with us as with the guilty and the accused, as the interpreters explain.

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Ut cum Iudas secum Beniaminem in Aegyptum abducturus, patrem Iacobum ita alloquitur, Genes. XLIII. Ego spondeo pro eo, de manu mea reposcito eum: Si non reduxero eum ad te, & statuero eum coram te, omnino peccavero tibi omnibus diebus, id est, ero tibi reus, & a te habebor pro scelerato: Sic Bethsabea ad Davidem 1. Regum I. 21. cum occubuerit Dominus Iesus Rex cum patribus suis, ego & filius meus Schelomoh erimus peccatores; id est, agetur nobiscum tanquam cum sontibus & reis, ut exponunt interpretes.

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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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