Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>87. For even if the Gentiles themselves could have anything\r\nholy and right in their doctrines, our saints did not\r\ncondemn it, however much the Gentiles themselves were to\r\nbe detested for their superstitions and idolatry and pride, and\r\nthe rest of their corruptions, and to be punished with judgment\r\nfrom heaven, unless they submitted to correction. For\r\nwhen Paul the apostle also was saying something concerning\r\nGod before the Athenians, he adduced as a proof of what he\r\nsaid, that certain of them had said something to the same\r\neffect,<a id=\"FNanchor_529_529\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_529_529\">[529]</a> which certainly would not be condemned but recognised\r\nin them if they should come to Christ. And the holy\r\nCyprian uses similar evidence against the same heathens; for,\r\nspeaking of the magi, he says, \"The chief of them, however,\r\nHostanes, asserts both that the form of the true God cannot\r\nbe seen, and also that true angels stand beside His seat. In\r\nwhich Plato also agrees in like manner, and, maintaining the\r\nexistence of one God, he calls the others angels or demons.\r\nHermes Trismegistus also speaks of one God, and confesses\r\nthat He is incomprehensible, and past our powers of estima<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_194\">[Pg 194]</a></span>tion.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_530_530\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_530_530\">[530]</a>\r\nIf, therefore, they were to come to the perception of\r\nsalvation in Christ, it surely would not be said to them, This\r\nthat ye have is bad, or false; but clearly it would deservedly\r\nbe said, Though this in you is perfect and true, yet it would\r\nprofit nothing unless ye came to the grace of Christ. If,\r\ntherefore, anything that is holy can be found and rightly\r\napproved in the very heathens, although the salvation which\r\nis of Christ is not yet to be granted to them, we ought not,\r\neven though heretics are worse than they, to be moved to the\r\ndesire of correcting what is bad in them belonging to themselves,\r\nwithout being willing to acknowledge what is good in\r\nthem of Christ. But we will set forth from a fresh preface\r\nto consider the remaining judgments of this Council.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-288"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"520271d74c3e4a638d1ef1d747c871d9f2e7f895108012b2644341238f598d1d","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_530_530","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_530_530","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_530_530\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_530_530\"><span class=\"label\">[530]</span></a> Cypr. <i>de Idol. Vanitate</i>.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_530_530","text_sha256":"e576f2c31b9d096f1bee63c7b337fe76cf609bb8156914270084904a91c1f2a5","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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