Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>212. See therefore, when Christian kings make any decree\r\nagainst you in defence of Catholic unity, that it be not the\r\ncase that with your lips you are accusing them of being unlearned,\r\nas it were, in holy Scripture, while in your hearts you\r\nare grieving that they are so well acquainted with its teaching.\r\nFor who could put up with the sacrilegious and hateful fallacy\r\nwhich you advance in the case of one and the same Daniel, to\r\nfind fault with kings because he was cast into the den of lions,\r\nand to refuse praise to kings in that he was raised to exalted<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_379\">[Pg 379]</a></span>\r\nhonour, seeing that, even when he was cast into the den of\r\nlions, the king himself was more inclined to believe that he\r\nwould be safe than that he would be destroyed, and, in anxiety\r\nfor him, refused to eat his food? And then do you dare to\r\nsay to Christians, \"What have you to do with the kings of the\r\nworld?\" because Daniel suffered persecution at a king's hands,\r\nand yet not look back upon the same Daniel faithfully interpreting\r\ndreams to kings, calling a king lord, receiving gifts and\r\nhonours from a king? And so again do you dare, in the case\r\nof the aforesaid three children, to excite the flames of odium\r\nagainst kings, because, when they refused to worship the\r\nstatue, they were cast into the flames, while at the same\r\ntime you hold your tongue, and say nothing about their being\r\nthus extolled and honoured by the king? Granted that the\r\nking was a persecutor when he cast Daniel into the lions' den;\r\nbut when, on receiving him safely out again, in his joy and\r\ncongratulations he cast in his enemies to be torn in pieces\r\nand devoured by the same lions, what was he then,—a persecutor,\r\nor not?<a id=\"FNanchor_970_970\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_970_970\">[970]</a> I call on you to answer me. For if he was,\r\nwhy did not Daniel himself resist him, as he might so easily\r\nhave done in virtue of his great friendship for him, while yet\r\nyou bid us restrain kings from persecuting men? But if he\r\nwas not a persecutor, because he avenged with prompt justice\r\nthe outrage committed against a holy man, what kind of vengeance,\r\nI would ask, must be exacted from kings for indignities\r\noffered to the sacraments of Christ, if the limbs of the prophet\r\nrequired such a vengeance because they were exposed to danger?\r\nAgain, I acknowledge that the king, as indeed is manifest,\r\nwas a persecutor when he cast the three children into the\r\nfurnace because they refused to worship his image; but I ask\r\nwhether he was still a persecutor when he set forth the decree\r\nthat all who should blaspheme against the one true God should\r\nbe destroyed, and their whole house laid waste? For if he\r\nwas a persecutor, why do you answer Amen to the words of\r\na persecutor?<a id=\"FNanchor_971_971\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_971_971\">[971]</a> But if he was not a persecutor, why do you<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_380\">[Pg 380]</a></span>\r\ncall those persecutors who deter you from the madness of blasphemy?\r\nFor if they compel you to worship an idol, then\r\nthey are like the impious king, and you are like the three\r\nchildren; but if they are preventing you from fighting against\r\nChrist, it is you who are impious if you attempt to do this.\r\nBut what they may be if they forbid this with terrible threats,\r\nI do not presume to say. Do you find some other name for\r\nthem, if you will not call them pious emperors.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-641"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0573597df2d64d5864a2caae3823cb8c9737660e21d85b8cfc0a381b2bd0a4c3","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_970_970","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. 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