Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xvi.</span>—19. Let him go now, and with panting lungs\r\nand swollen throat find fault with me as a mere dialectician.\r\nNay, let him summon, not me, but the science of dialectics\r\nitself, to the bar of popular opinion as a forger of lies, and\r\nlet him open his mouth to its widest against it, with all the\r\nnoisiest uproar of a special pleader. Let him say whatever\r\nhe pleases before the inexperienced, that so the learned may\r\nbe moved to wrath, while the ignorant are deceived. Let him\r\ncall me, in virtue of my rhetoric, by the name of the orator\r\nTertullus, by whom Paul was accused;<a id=\"FNanchor_1078_1078\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1078_1078\">[1078]</a> and let him give himself\r\nthe name of Advocate,<a id=\"FNanchor_1079_1079\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1079_1079\">[1079]</a> in virtue of the pleading in which<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_423\">[Pg 423]</a></span>\r\nhe boasts his former power, and for this reason delude himself\r\nwith the notion that he is, or rather was, a namesake of\r\nthe Holy Ghost. Let him, with all my heart, exaggerate the\r\nfoulness of the Manichæans, and endeavour to divert it on to\r\nme by his barking. Let him quote all the exploits of those\r\nwho have been condemned, whether known or unknown to\r\nme; and let him turn into the calumnious imputation of a\r\nprejudged crime, by some new right entirely his own, the fact\r\nthat a former friend of mine there named me in my absence\r\nto the better securing of his own defence. Let him read the\r\ntitles that have been placed upon my letters by himself or by\r\nhis friends, as suited their pleasure, and boast that he has, as\r\nit were, involved me hopelessly in their expressions. When I\r\nacknowledge certain eulogies of bread, uttered in all simplicity\r\nand merriment, let him take away my character with the\r\nabsurd imputations of poisonous baseness and madness. And\r\nlet him entertain so bad an opinion of your understanding, as\r\nto imagine that he can be believed when he declares that\r\npernicious love-charms were given to a woman, not only with\r\nthe knowledge, but actually with the complicity<a id=\"FNanchor_1080_1080\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1080_1080\">[1080]</a> of her husband.\r\nWhat the man who was afterwards to ordain me\r\nbishop<a id=\"FNanchor_1081_1081\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1081_1081\">[1081]</a> wrote about me in anger, while I was as yet a priest,\r\nhe may freely seek to use as evidence against me. That the\r\nsame man sought and obtained forgiveness from a holy Council\r\nfor the wrong he thus had done me, he is equally at liberty\r\nto ignore as being in my favour,—being either so ignorant or\r\nso forgetful of Christian gentleness, and the commandment of\r\nthe gospel, that he brings as an accusation against a brother\r\nwhat is wholly unknown to that brother himself, as he humbly\r\nentreats that pardon may in kindness be extended to him.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-696"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"24511b54202c7f71354c3a33218f9370b00ab22e611f19de73097e9f621ed61f","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1079_1079","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_1079_1079","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1079_1079\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1079_1079\"><span class=\"label\">[1079]</span></a> Paracleti.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1079_1079","text_sha256":"048ae04b584869e7c4abd6f86bb4e1ffe1c86b84044e32ebd7388d24d8a42c17","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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