On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §558 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: 3 — God imputes to none unless he sinned in self or in another (Saul)

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er 3. God imputes sin to no one unless he has sinned either in himself, or in another, that is, unless either he has committed sin in himself, or another with whom he is closely joined; as he imputed Saul's sin to his sons, not because they themselves had committed it, but because their father had committed it. And likewise God testifies in the law that he visits the sins of the fathers upon the children.

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GAR. Resp. 3. Deus nemini peccatum imputat, quin ille peccaverit vel in se, vel in alio, id est, quin vel in se peccatum commiserit, vel alius, quocum arcte coniunctus est; sicut Sauli peccatum filiis eius imputavit, non quia ipsi commisissent, sed quia pater eorum commiserat. Et item Deus testatur in lege, se visitare peccata patrum in filiis.

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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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