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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XVIII.</span>—20. He says: \"You who are a most aban<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_245\">[Pg 245]</a></span>doned\r\n<i>traditor</i> have come out in the character of a persecutor\r\nand murderer of us who keep the law.\" If the followers of\r\nMaximianus kept the law when they separated from you,\r\nthen we may acknowledge you as a keeper of the law, when\r\nyou are separated from the Church spread abroad throughout\r\nthe world. But if you raise the question of persecutions, I\r\nat once reply: If you have suffered anything unjustly, this\r\ndoes not concern those who, though they disapprove of men\r\nwho act in such a way,<a id=\"FNanchor_665_665\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_665_665\">[665]</a> yet endure them for the peace that\r\nis in unity, in a manner deserving of all praise. Wherefore\r\nyou have nothing to bring up against the Lord's wheat, who\r\nendure the chaff that is among them till the last winnowing,\r\nfrom whom you never would have separated yourself, had you\r\nnot shown yourself lighter than chaff by flying away under\r\nthe blast of temptation before the coming of the Winnower.\r\nBut not to leave this one example, which the Lord hath\r\nthrust back in their teeth, to close the mouths of these men,\r\nfor their correction if they will show themselves to be wise,\r\nbut for their confusion if they remain in their folly: if those\r\nare more just that suffer persecution than those who inflict it,\r\nthen those same followers of Maximianus are the more just,\r\nwhose basilica was utterly overthrown, and who were grievously\r\nmaltreated by the military following of Optatus, when the\r\nmandates of the proconsul, ordering that all of them should\r\nbe shut out of the basilicas, were manifestly procured by the\r\nfollowers of Primianus. Wherefore, if, when the emperors\r\nhated their communion, they ventured on such violent measures\r\nfor the persecution of the followers of Maximianus,\r\nwhat would they do if they were enabled to work their will\r\nby being in communion with kings? And if they did such\r\nthings as I have mentioned for the correction of the wicked,\r\nwhy are they surprised that Catholic emperors should decree\r\nwith greater power that they should be worked upon and\r\ncorrected who endeavour to rebaptize the whole Christian\r\nworld, when they have no ground for differing from them?<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_246\">[Pg 246]</a></span>\r\nseeing that they themselves bear witness that it is right to\r\nbear with wicked men even where they have true charges to\r\nbring against them in the cause of peace, since they received\r\nthose whom they had themselves condemned, acknowledging\r\nthe honours conferred among themselves, and the baptism\r\nadministered in schism. Let them at length consider what\r\ntreatment they deserve at the hands of the Christian powers\r\nof the world, who are the enemies of Christian unity throughout\r\nthe world. If, therefore, correction be bitter, yet let them\r\nnot fail to be ashamed; lest, when they begin to read what\r\nthey themselves have written, they be overcome with laughter,\r\nwhen they do not find in themselves what they wish to find\r\nin others, and fail to recognise<a id=\"FNanchor_666_666\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_666_666\">[666]</a> in their own case what they\r\nfind fault with in their neighbours.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-416"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a86b9e512ba872b9bca0b21f355489d1aee5376afec6d945b82b0e795a37fe44","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_665_665","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_665_665","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_665_665\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_665_665\"><span class=\"label\">[665]</span></a> Qui talia facientes quamvis improbent. A comparison of the explanation of\r\nthis passage in <i>Contra Crescon.</i> <span class=\"smcap\">III.</span> xli. 45, shows the probability of Migne's\r\nconjecture, \"quamvis improbe,\" \"who endure the men that act in such a\r\nway, however monstrous their conduct may be.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_665_665","text_sha256":"fba1fd6436a643a3f40fbf9f2f732d2c605f535cc5711f23dbe27438b4fd6205","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_665_665