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Chapter 9: Words can name a nature before it acts
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In the same sense logicians usually note that words set in definitions mark an aptitude, not an act—as when whiteness is defined as a color that scatters sight, that is, that is born apt to scatter sight.
Latin Eodem sensu Logici notare solent verba in definitionibus posita aptitudinem, non actum designare, ut cum definitur albedo, Color qui visum disgregat, id est, qui aptus natus est visum disgregare.
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About this text Placeus wrote in the mid-seventeenth century as Reformed theology professor at the Academy of Saumur. This is not a patristic work. The 1661 Saumur Latin is public domain.
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
Date c. 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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