And yet it is the basic threefold category for understanding original sin from Augustine through the 17th century, especially in forensic terms. This is part of the common basis from the Medievals and Patristic period that shaped the thought of the Reformers on the concept of Sin. This is simply a list of 7 quotes from major 16th c. Reformers and 17th c. Reformed Scholastics mostly in relationship to Romans 5, but not limited to that.  (Perhaps someday I will post Aquinas, Abelard, Lombard, Augustine, and others on the same topic. The other aspect that is interesting is that once the Adam-Christ parallel is understood in light of a federal and seminal union with Adam, it is relatively clear what Christ accomplishes on our behalf … (By the way, note the dates of the publications in the footnotes for a time-line) (more…)