Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XXIV.</span>—26. But let us turn to the consideration of\r\nyour fruits. I pass over the tyrannous exercise of authority\r\nin the cities, and especially in the estates of other men; I\r\npass over the madness of the Circumcelliones, and the sacrilegious\r\nand profane adoration of the bodies of those who had\r\nthrown themselves of their own accord over precipices, the\r\nrevellings of drunkenness, and the ten years' groaning of the\r\nwhole of Africa under the cruelty of the one man Optatus\r\nGildonianus: all this I pass over, because there are certain\r\namong you who cry out that these things are, and have ever\r\nbeen, displeasing to them. But they say that they bore with\r\nthem in the cause of peace, because they could not put them\r\ndown; wherein they condemn themselves by their own judgment:\r\nfor if indeed they felt such love for peace, they never\r\nwould have rent in twain the bond of unity. For what madness\r\ncan be greater, than to be willing to abandon peace in\r\nthe midst of peace itself, and to be anxious to retain it in the\r\nmidst of discord? Therefore, for the sake of those who pre<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_251\">[Pg 251]</a></span>tend\r\nthat they do not see the evils of this same faction of\r\nDonatus, which all men see and blame, ignoring them even\r\nto the extent of saying of Optatus himself, \"What did he\r\ndo?\" \"Who accused him?\" \"Who convicted him?\" \"I know\r\nnothing,\" \"I saw nothing,\" \"I heard nothing,\"—for the sake\r\nof these, I say, who pretend that they are ignorant of what\r\nis generally notorious, the party of Maximianus has arisen,\r\nthrough whom their eyes are opened, and their mouths are\r\nclosed: for they openly sever themselves; they openly erect\r\naltar against altar; they are openly in a Council<a id=\"FNanchor_677_677\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_677_677\">[677]</a> called sacrilegious\r\nand vipers, and swift to shed blood, to be compared\r\nwith Dathan and Abiram and Korah, and are condemned in\r\ncutting terms of abhorrence; and are as openly received again\r\nwith undiminished honours in company with those whom they\r\nhave baptized. Such are the fruits of these men, who do all\r\nthis for the peace of Donatus, that they may clothe themselves\r\nin sheep's clothing, and reject the peace of Christ\r\nthroughout the world that they may be ravening wolves\r\nwithin the fold.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-422"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c54805aab7f5cc9dd261d3048b6db850c30b2243d7ab9152782647cd031ef251","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_677_677","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_677_677","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_677_677\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_677_677\"><span class=\"label\">[677]</span></a> That of Bagai.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_677_677","text_sha256":"d65eb901659f42395e917c63d1718b571d3bb65f1e90207c24059c6494157d54","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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