On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §76 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 8: Garissoles argues from judgment set against gift in Romans 5:16

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III. From verse 16 he reasons thus. Here κρίμα, judgment or guilt from Adam, is set opposite Christ's δώρημα (Romans 5:16). Therefore, as δώρημα does not signify some quality inhering in us, but what is in Christ, and is freely imputed to us in Christ, so κρίμα must signify something outside us — namely the fault committed by Adam, from which we draw guilt and condemnation. Collect: Whose fault is unto the condemnation of all, that fault must be imputed to all. But Adam's fault is unto the condemnation of all. Therefore it must be imputed to all.

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III. Ex verf. 16. sic ratiocinatur. Hic κρίμα, judicium sive reatus ex Adamo, opponitur δώρημα Christi. Ergo ut δώρημα non significat qualitatem aliquam nobis inherentem, sed quod in Christo est, & in Christo nobis gratis imputatur; Ita κρίμα aliquid significare debet, quod sit extra nos, nempe culpam ab Adamo patratam, unde reatum & condemnationem trahimus. Collige. Cujus culpa est in omnium condemnationem, eam omnibus imputari oportet. Atqui culpa Adami est in omnium condemnationem. Ergo eam omnibus imputari oportet.

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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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