On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §660 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: Rom. 5.13 usque ad legem; γάρ links; I concede the major

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For, says the Apostle, Until the law sin was in the world. But sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Thus, you say, I argue from this saying of the Apostle.

That sin of which the Apostle speaks in the immediately preceding verse is that sin which was in the world until the law, as is plain from the sequel and texture of the words, especially from that particle γάρ, which is causal.

This I concede, and I ask that you remember it, for it is true, and highly useful for overturning your opinion and establishing mine.

Latin

Nam, inquit Apostolus, Usque ad legem peccatum erat in mundo. Peccatum vero non imputatur, quum nulla lex est. Sic, inquis, ex hoc dicto Apostoli argumentor. Peccatum illud, de quo loquitur Apostolus versu immediate praecedenti, est peccatum illud quod fuit in mundo usque ad legem, ut patet ex sequela & textura verborum, maxime ex illa particula γάρ, quae est rationalis. Hoc concedo, & ut memineris rogo, nam & verum est, & ad tuam sententiam evertendam, meam autem firmandam apprime utile.

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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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