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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xxi.</span>—24. But see, when he is reduced to straits\r\nin the argument, he again makes an attack on me full of mist\r\nand wind, that the calm clearness of the truth may be obscured;\r\nand through the extremity of his want he becomes full of resources,\r\nshown not in saying what is true, but in unbought\r\nempty revilings. Hold fast, with the keenest attention and\r\nutmost perseverance, what he ought to answer,—that is, where\r\nmeans may be found for cleansing the conscience of the recipient\r\nwhen the stains in that of the giver are concealed,—lest\r\npossibly the blast of his eloquence should wrest this from your\r\nhands, and you in turn should be carried away by the dark\r\ntempest of his turgid discourse, so as wholly to fail in seeing\r\nwhence he has digressed, and to what point he should return;\r\nand see where the man can wander, whilst he cannot stand\r\nin the matter which he has undertaken. For see how much\r\nhe says, through having nothing that he ought to say. He\r\nsays \"that I slide in slippery places, but am held up; that\r\nI neither destroy nor confirm the objections that I make; that\r\nI devise uncertain things in the place of certainty; that I do\r\nnot permit my readers to believe what is true, but cause them\r\nto look with increased suspicion on what is doubtful.\" He\r\nsays \"that I have the accursed talents of the Academic philosopher\r\nCarneades.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1084_1084\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1084_1084\">[1084]</a> He endeavours to insinuate what the\r\nAcademics think of the falseness or the falsehood of human\r\nsensation, showing in this also that he is wholly without\r\nknowledge of what he says. He declares that \"it is said by\r\nthem that snow is black, whereas it is white; and that silver\r\nis black; and that a tower is round, or free from projections,\r\nwhen it is really angular; that an oar is broken in the water,\r\nwhile it is whole.\" And all this because, when he had said<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_428\">[Pg 428]</a></span>\r\nthat \"the conscience of him that gives,\" or \"of him that gives\r\nin holiness, is what we look for to cleanse the conscience of\r\nthe recipient,\" I said in reply, What if the conscience of the\r\ngiver be hidden from sight, and possibly be stained with guilt?\r\nHere you have his black snow, and black silver, and his tower\r\nround instead of angular, and the oar in the water broken\r\nwhile yet whole, in that I suggested a state of the case which\r\nmight be conceived, and could not really exist, that the conscience\r\nof the giver might be hidden from view, and possibly\r\nmight be stained with guilt!</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-701"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cde308a6a46498a36c850472cf02028a086bdaba7de441c46ac0d2894653b9cf","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1084_1084","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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Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_1084_1084","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1084_1084\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1084_1084\"><span class=\"label\">[1084]</span></a> Lactantius, Book <span class=\"smcap\">V.</span> c. xiv., tells us of the talents of Carneades, recording that\r\nwhen he was sent on an embassy to Rome by the Athenians, he spoke there\r\nfirst in defence of justice, and then on the following day in opposition to it;\r\nand that he was in the habit of speaking with such force on either side, as to\r\nbe able to refute any arguments advanced by anybody else.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1084_1084","text_sha256":"e685d11de65e61e6c9d3a9fe1c5de3de1c3d269d2d231ad850bfd93281c24eac","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1084_1084