On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §613 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: if 'die in Adam' looks to imputation, so does 'sinned in Adam'; only Adam, not Noah etc.

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which I conclude the opposite way from the learned man: if the Apostle's saying "we die in Adam" looks to imputation, then so does what he says about having sinned in Adam. And that saying does look to imputation, as can be shown by a sure reason. For we are not said to die in Noah, nor in any other of our ancestors, but only in Adam. And yet just as we are said to be descended from Adam, so we can be said to be descended from our fathers and all our ancestors.

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GAR. Unde contrario modo concludo, atque collegit Vir doctus: Si dictum Apostoli, in Adamo morimur, ad imputationem spectat: Ergo & quod ait, in Adamo peccasse. Atqui illud ad imputationem spectat; ut certa ratione ostendi potest. Nam neque in Noacho, neque in quocumque alio maiorum nostrorum mori dicimur, sed tantum in Adamo. Et tamen sicuti dicimur ab Adamo prognati, ita dici possumus prognati a patribus & omnibus maioribus nostris.

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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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