On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §563 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: The opponent contradicts himself on sinning in another

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Next the learned man does not seem to himself to stand consistent enough. For he had said in the preceding paragraph that for someone to sin in another designates imputation by force of the word, and that to sin in another and for another's sin to be imputed are the same. Now he will have them to be diverse; and that to sin in another is prior to another's sin being imputed; and that this as the later, that as the prior and cause.

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Deinde non videtur Vir doctus sibi satis constare. Dixerat enim paragrapho praecedente aliquem in alio peccare ex vi vocis designare imputationem, idemque esse in alio peccare ac peccatum alienum imputari. Nunc vult esse diversa; & prius esse peccare in alio, quam peccatum alienum imputari; hocque tanquam posterius, illud supponere, tanquam prius & causam.

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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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