Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xvii.</span>—22. \"For as regards the fact that to preserve\r\nthe figure of unity the Lord gave the power to Peter that whatsoever\r\nhe should loose on earth should be loosed,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_151_151\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_151_151\">[151]</a> it is clear that\r\nthat unity is also described as one dove without fault.<a id=\"FNanchor_152_152\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_152_152\">[152]</a> Can\r\nit be said, then, that to this same dove belong all those greedy\r\nones, whose existence in the same Catholic Church Cyprian\r\nhimself so grievously bewailed? For birds of prey, I believe,\r\ncannot be called doves, but rather hawks. How then did they\r\nbaptize those who used to plunder estates by treacherous\r\ndeceit, and increase their profits by compound usury,<a id=\"FNanchor_153_153\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_153_153\">[153]</a> if baptism\r\nis only given by that indivisible and chaste and perfect<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_71\">[Pg 71]</a></span>\r\ndove, that unity which can only be understood as existing\r\namong the good? Is it possible that, by the prayers of\r\nthe saints who are spiritual within the Church, as though by\r\nthe frequent lamentations of the dove, a great sacrament is\r\ndispensed, with a secret administration of the mercy of God,\r\nso that their sins also are loosed who are baptized, not by the\r\ndove but by the hawk, if they come to that sacrament in the\r\npeace of Catholic unity? But if this be so, why should it\r\nnot also be the case that, as each man comes from heresy or\r\nschism to the Catholic peace, his sins should be loosed through\r\ntheir prayers? But the integrity of the sacrament is everywhere\r\nrecognised, though it will not avail for the irrevocable\r\nremission of sins outside the unity of the Church. Nor will\r\nthe prayers of the saints, or, in other words, the groanings\r\nof that one dove, be able to help one who is set in heresy or\r\nschism; just as they are not able to help one who is placed\r\nwithin the Church, if by a wicked life he himself retain the\r\ndebts of his sins against himself, and that though he be baptized,\r\nnot by this hawk, but by the pious ministry of the dove\r\nherself.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-117"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e932d3ceda2219049f000200438b011a5e3b162c1e66ec862029a04902659f5e","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_153_153","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Title leaves identify J. R. King, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872; catalog identifies translator John Richard King (1835-1907). Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/American Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_153_153","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_153_153\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_153_153\"><span class=\"label\">[153]</span></a> Cypr. <i>de Lapsis</i>, c. 4.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_153_153","text_sha256":"3db3b24730ce10104b089900b3ddabb2cab0a03368ac70b6120c959e86657301","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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