Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. iv.</span>—6. Next his colleagues proceed to deliver their\r\nseveral opinions. But first they listened to the letter written\r\nto Jubaianus; for it was read, as was mentioned in the\r\npreamble. Let it therefore be read among ourselves also,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_59\">[Pg 59]</a></span>\r\nthat we too, with the help of God, may discover from it what\r\nwe ought to think. \"What!\" I think I hear some one\r\nsaying, \"do you proceed to tell us what Cyprian wrote to\r\nJubaianus?\" I have read the letter, I confess, and should\r\ncertainly have been a convert to his views, had I not been\r\ninduced to consider the matter more carefully by the vast\r\nweight of authority, originating in those whom the Church,\r\ndistributed throughout the world amid so many nations, of\r\nLatins, Greeks, barbarians, not to mention the Jewish race\r\nitself, has been able to produce,—that same Church which\r\ngave birth to Cyprian himself,—men whom I could in no wise\r\nbring myself to think had been unwilling without reason to\r\nhold this view,—not because it was impossible that in so difficult\r\na question the opinion of one or of a few might not\r\nhave been more near the truth than that of more, but because\r\none must not lightly, without full consideration and investigation\r\nof the matter to the best of his abilities, decide in favour\r\nof a single individual, or even of a few, against the decision\r\nof so very many men of the same religion and communion,\r\nall endowed with great talent and abundant learning. And\r\nso how much was suggested to me on more diligent inquiry,\r\neven by the letter of Cyprian himself, in favour of the view\r\nwhich is now held by the Catholic Church, that the baptism\r\nof Christ is to be recognised and approved, not by the standard\r\nof their merits by whom it is administered, but by His alone\r\nof whom it is said, \"The same is He which baptizeth,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_118_118\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_118_118\">[118]</a> will\r\nbe shown naturally in the course of our argument. Let us\r\ntherefore suppose that the letter which was written by\r\nCyprian to Jubaianus has been read among us, as it was read\r\nin the Council.<a id=\"FNanchor_119_119\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_119_119\">[119]</a> And I would have every one read it who\r\nmeans to read what I am going to say, lest he might possibly\r\nthink that I have suppressed some things of consequence.\r\nFor it would take too much time, and be irrelevant to the\r\nelucidation of the matter in hand, were we at this moment\r\nto quote all the words of this epistle.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-101"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"488c9b8b788e9dc38fab6129ca22a081b3f52ea40b8a658e28bcbce76fbd8d1f","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_119_119","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_119_119","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_119_119\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_119_119\"><span class=\"label\">[119]</span></a> The Council of Carthage.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_119_119","text_sha256":"e59935e47070ed04c592b54e5c769380e7a31dc83a4a3baef4f10912f026e130","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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