On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §607 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: What it means to deny we die in Adam's own person

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I speak, then, of the death by which each dies, and of the resurrection by which each formally rises. And when I deny that we die in Adam's own person, I mean nothing else than that we die by Adam's own death imputed to us; when I deny that we rise in Christ's own person, nothing else than that we rise by Christ's resurrection imputed to us—as is plain from the very words that went before.

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Loquor igitur de morte qua quisque moritur, de resurrectione qua quisque formaliter resurgit. Nec aliud volo, cum nego nos mori in ipsa Adami persona, quam nos mori ipsa morte Adami nobis imputata; cum nego nos resurgere in ipsa Christi persona, quam resurgere resurrectione Christi nobis imputata, ut patet ex verbis ipsis antecedentibus.

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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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