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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>9. We do not then \"find that any one, after being baptized\r\namong heretics, was afterwards admitted by the apostles with\r\nthe same baptism, and communicated;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_208_208\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_208_208\">[208]</a> but neither do we\r\nfind this, that any one coming from the society of heretics,\r\nwho had been baptized among them, was baptized anew by\r\nthe apostles. But this custom, which even then those who\r\nlooked back to past ages could not find to have been invented\r\nby men of a later time, is rightly believed to have been\r\nhanded down from the apostles. And there are many other\r\nthings of the same kind, which it would be tedious to\r\nrecount. Wherefore, if they had something to say for themselves\r\nto whom Cyprian, wishing to persuade them of the\r\ntruth of his own view, says, \"Let no one say, What we have\r\nreceived from the apostles, that we follow,\" with how much\r\nmore force we now say, What the custom of the Church has\r\nalways held, what this argument has failed to prove false,\r\nand what a general Council has confirmed, this we follow!\r\nTo this we may add that it may also be said, after a careful\r\ninquiry into the reasoning on both sides of the discussion,\r\nand into the evidence of Scripture, What truth has declared,\r\nthat we follow.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FOURTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-134"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"14d2f5b3cc8054dea4f180aa7ea69171404cf2626bac1617238c4ef7457f62f5","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_208_208","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_208_208","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_208_208\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_208_208\"><span class=\"label\">[208]</span></a> Cypr. <i>Ep.</i> lxxiii. sec. 11.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_208_208","text_sha256":"bcc0141c43445700baa5f9f44ecedf07ce4616f68b788eaaefbdaae64c28e0bf","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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