On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §699 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 10: Christ became a curse (Gal 3:13), not by that ban’s force but by gospel grace

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But I wonder where the learned man got it that Christ on the cross bore the curse by the force and prescription of that law constituted by God, Cursed is he who hangs on a tree.

Paul does teach in Galatians 3:13 that Christ was made a curse for us, and proves it because he hung on a tree, and it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.

But he does not teach that he was made a curse by the force and prescription of that law.

Latin

Miror autem unde habuerit Vir doctus, Christum in cruce maledictionem pertulisse ex vi & praescripto legis illius a Deo constitutae, Maledictus qui pendet in ligno. Docet quidem Paulus Gal. iii. 13. Christum pro nobis factum esse maledictionem, idque probat quia pependit in ligno, & scriptum est, Maledictus quisquis pendet in ligno. Sed non docet factum fuisse maledictionem ex vi & praescripto illius legis.

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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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