particular, Hodge’s defence of the immediate imputation of Adam’s sin to his posterity led him to revise the concept of original guilt used by federal theologians. Let us examine his argument. First, Hodge claims that imputation is to reckon or lay something to someone else’s account. Imputing sin entails imputing guilt for that sin: And by guilt is meant not criminality or moral ill-desert, or demerit, much less moral pollution, but the judicial obligation to satisfy justice. Hence the evil consequent