On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §619 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 9: All in Romans 5:12 means persons distinct from Adam

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Otherwise the Apostle's syllogism would be faulty and composed of a syllogism with four terms; into them death passed; all sinned; therefore into all death passed. For in the conclusion the word "all" marks the persons of all men, distinct among themselves and from Adam's person. So in the minor the same word must likewise signify the distinct and separate persons of all men, both among themselves and from Adam.

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Alioqui vitiosus esset Apostoli syllogismus, & ex quatuor terminis componeretur, quem sic forms: Quicumque peccaverunt, in eos mors transiit; Omnes peccaverunt; Igitur in omnes mors transiit. Nam in conclusione vox omnes notat personas omnium hominum inter se & a persona Adami distinctas & separatas. Ergo necesse est ut in minore eadem vox omnium itidem hominum personas distinctas & separatas cum inter se tum ab Adamo significet.

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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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