On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §697 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: The threat and the command both address Adam alone

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For there is nothing in the words of the threat from which it can be deduced that it looks to others than those to whom the mandate or ban looks.

In the day you eat of it, you shall die the death.

Who does not see that both that word you eat and you die look to the same person—not this to all men, and that to Adam alone?

Latin

Nihil enim est in verbis comminationis, ex quo deduci possit, eam ad alios spectare, quam ad quos spectat mandatum seu interdictum. Quo die comederis ex ea, morte morieris. Quis non videt ad eandem personam utrumque illud verbum comederis & morieris spectare, non autem hoc ad omnes homines, illud ad solum Adamum?

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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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