On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §84 · Josué de la Place (Placeus)

Chapter 8: Romans 5:18 and the difference between through and because of

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V. From verse 18 he gathers by a similar reason as above. The one through whose offense condemnation came upon all human beings — on account of that one's offense a penalty is inflicted on all. But through one Adam's offense condemnation came upon all. Therefore on account of one Adam's offense a penalty is inflicted on all his posterity (Romans 5:18). First, the major premise can be denied. For it is one thing for something to be through someone, another for it to be on account of someone: I write with a pen, yet not on account of the pen; condemnation is through a judge, yet not on account of the judge.

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V. Ex verf. 18. simili ratione ac supra colligit. Per cuius delictum condemnatio in omnes homines venit, propter illius delictum poena irrogatur omnibus: Atqui per unius Adae delictum condemnatio venit in omnes. Ergo propter unius Adae delictum, poena irrogatur omnibus ejus posteris. Primum negari potest major propositio. aliud enim est per aliquem esse aliquid, aliud propter aliquem; per calamum scribo, non tamen propter calamum; per judicem est condemnatio, non tamen propter judicem.

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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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