Chapter 9: how prove 'die in Adam' means imputation if a non-imputation cause already exists?
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n it be shown by a sure reason that the Apostle's saying "we die in Adam" looks to imputation, if without imputation there is already a legitimate cause why we are said to die in Adam?For the point was what the Apostle says, not what he does not say.But why is the same not said of other ancestors?If Scripture said and drove home more often that we die in Adam, one might fairly ask why, repeating that matter often, it always remembered one Adam and never other ancestors; now, since it is said only once, it ought not seem strange if other ancestors are passed over in silence, and there is no place to hunt a reason for that silence.
Latin
PLAC. Quomodo certa ratione ostendi potest, dictum Apostoli in Adamo morimur, ad imputationem spectare, si sine imputatione causa legitima est, quare in Adamo mori dicamur? Agebatur enim de eo quod ab Apostolo dicitur, non de eo quod non dicitur. At quare idem de alijs maioribus non dicitur? Si saepius diceretur ac inculcaretur in Scriptura nos in Adamo mori, merito quaeri posset, quare saepe rem illam repetens Scriptura, perpetuo unius Adami, nunquam aliorum maiorum meminisset: nunc, cum semel dictum sit, mirum videri non debet, si alij maiores silentio praeteriti sunt, nec locus est silentii illius rationem quaerendi.