Chapter 8: Calvin p.20 — Adam's sin is remote cause of ruin
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Here D.Garissoles turns against himself a distinguished place of Calvin that we already praised at page 20."What he hands down — that we perished by the offense of one — take thus: because from him corruption was poured across into us.For we do not so perish by his fault as if we ourselves were outside fault; but because his sin is the cause of our sin, Paul ascribes our ruin to him" (Romans 5:15).He could not have marked more openly that Adam's sin is the cause of our ruin not proximate but remote, not immediate but mediate.For the cause of a cause is also a cause of the effect, yet only remote.
Latin
Hic D. G. insignem Calvini locum jam a nobis laudatum pag. 20. contra se citat. Quod unius delicto periisse nos tradit, sic accipe, quia ex ipso in nos corruptio transfusa sit. Neque enim sic perimus eius culpa, quasi extra culpam ipsi simus; Sed quia eius peccatum peccati nostri causa est, exitium nostrum illi Paulus adscribit. Non potuit apertius significare, peccatum Adami causam esse exitii nostri non proximam sed remotam, non immediatam, sed mediatam. Causa enim causae est causa etiam effectus, sed remota duntaxat.