On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §684 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: I take ‘no law, no imputation’ absolutely; sin is ἀνομία judged by a law

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eply is not to the point.

For that proposition, sin is not imputed where there is no law, is taken by Calvin with a restriction to the written law and to men’s judgment.

But I now use it absolutely and without restriction, insofar as, taken universally, it is true.

For what is sin in general but ἀνομία, a wandering from a law, a transgression of law?

And what is judicial imputation but the act of a judge judging according to a law, whether that law was natural or positive, given by voice or in writing?

Latin

PLAC. Haec responsio ad rem non est. Propositio enim illa, non imputatur peccatum ubi non est lex, accipitur a Calvino cum restrictione ad legem scriptam, & hominum iudicium. Ego vero illam nunc quidem usurpo absolute & sine restrictione, quatenus, universaliter accepta, vera est. Quid enim est in genere peccatum, nisi ἀνομία, aberratio a lege, legis transgressio? & quid est iudiciaria imputatio, nisi actio iudicis iudicantis secundum legem, sive ea naturalis, sive positiva, voce aut scripto, lata fuerit?

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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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