The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Having mentioned sin and death, the one as the only cause of the other, the guilt of sin of the punishment of death, sin deserving nothing but death, and death being due unto nothing but sin, he declares how all Men universally became liable unto this punishment, or guilty of death. [Greek or Hebrew], in quo omnes peccaverunt; in whom all have sinned. For it relates unto the one Man that sinned, in whom all sinned; which is evident from the effect thereof, in as much as in him all died, 1 Cor. 15.22. Or as it is here, on his sin Death passed on all Men. And this is the evident sense of the words, [Greek or Hebrew] being put for [Greek or Hebrew], which is not unusual in the Scripture. See Matth. 15.5. Rom. 4.18. Chap. 5.2. Phil. 1.3. Heb. 9.17. And it is so often used by the best Writers in the Greek Tongue: So Hesiod [Greek or Hebrew], modus in omnibus rebus optimus. So [Greek or Hebrew], in vobis situm est. [Greek or Hebrew], hoc in me situm est. And this reading of the words is contended for by Augustine against the Pelagians rejecting their eo quod or propterea. But I shall not contend about the reading of the words. It is the artifice of our adversaries to persuade Men, that the force of our Argument to prove from hence the imputation of the sin of Adam unto his posterity, doth depend solely upon this interpretation of these words, [Greek or Hebrew], by, in whom. We shall therefore grant them their desire, that they are better rendered by eo quod, propterea, or quatenus; in as much, because. Only we must say, that here is a reason given, Why Death passed on all Men, in as much as all have sinned, that is, in that sin whereby death entered into the World.

Having mentioned sin and death, the one as the only cause of the other, the guilt of sin of the punishment of death, sin deserving nothing but death, and death being due unto nothing but sin, he declares how all Men universally became liable unto this punishment, or guilty of death. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in quo omnes peccaverunt; in whom all have sinned. For it relates unto the one Man that sinned, in whom all sinned; which is evident from the effect thereof, in as much as in him all died,