Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>41. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: See how you have quoted the\r\ntestimony of holy Scripture, or how you have understood it,\r\nwhen it has no bearing at all upon the present point at issue.\r\nFor all that you have brought forward was simply said to\r\nprove that there are false bishops, just as there are false angels\r\nand false apostles. Now we too know quite well that there are\r\nfalse angels and false apostles, and, as the true apostle says, false\r\nbrethren also;<a id=\"FNanchor_741_741\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_741_741\">[741]</a> but, seeing that charges such as yours may be\r\nbrought by either side against the other, what is required is\r\na certain degree of proof, and not mere empty words. But\r\nif you would see to which of us the charge of falseness more\r\ntruly applies, recall to mind what we have said before, and\r\nyou will see it there set forth, that we may not become tedious\r\nto our readers by repeating the same thing over and over\r\nagain. And yet how is the Church dispersed throughout the\r\nworld affected either by what you may have found to say\r\nabout its chaff, which is mixed with it throughout the whole\r\nworld; or by what you said of Manichæus and the other\r\ndevilish sects? For if the wheat is not affected by anything\r\nwhich is said even about the chaff which is still mingled with\r\nit, how much less are the members of Christ dispersed\r\nthroughout the whole world affected by monstrosities<a id=\"FNanchor_742_742\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_742_742\">[742]</a> which\r\nhave been so long and so openly separated from it?<a id=\"FNanchor_743_743\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_743_743\">[743]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-470"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"424d920f05cd8b5c756a6d01db1626623fb5125a59106038e99f1e5d9d010513","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_743_743","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_743_743","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_743_743\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_743_743\"><span class=\"label\">[743]</span></a> Down to this point Augustine had already answered Petilianus in the First\r\nBook, as he says himself below, <span class=\"smcap\">III.</span> 1. 61.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_743_743","text_sha256":"99575361371b26e162f8f0fecf933838a616268433b70794dbf0cd7139709206","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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