Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xii.</span>—17. But the blessed Cyprian shows that it was\r\nno new or sudden thing that he decided, because the practice\r\nhad already begun under Agrippinus. \"Many years,\" he\r\nsays, \"and much time has passed away since, under Agrippinus\r\nof honoured memory, a large assembly of bishops determined\r\nthis point.\" Accordingly, under Agrippinus, at any\r\nrate, the thing was new. But I cannot understand what\r\nCyprian means by saying, \"And thenceforward to the present\r\nday, so many thousand heretics in our provinces, having been\r\nconverted to our Church, showed no hesitation or dislike, but\r\nrather with full consent of reason and will, have embraced the\r\nopportunity of the grace of the laver of life and the baptism\r\nunto salvation,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_130_130\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_130_130\">[130]</a> unless indeed he says, \"thenceforward to the\r\npresent day,\" because from the time when they were baptized\r\nin the Church, in accordance with the Council of Agrippinus,\r\nno question of excommunication had arisen in the case of any\r\nof the rebaptized. Yet if the custom of baptizing those who\r\ncame over from heretics remained in force from the time of\r\nAgrippinus to that of Cyprian, why should new Councils have\r\nbeen held by Cyprian on this point? Why does he say to\r\nthis same Jubaianus that he is not doing anything new or\r\nsudden, but only what had been established by Agrippinus?\r\nFor why should Jubaianus be disturbed by the question of\r\nnovelty, so as to require to be satisfied by the authority of\r\nAgrippinus, if this was the continuous practice of the Church\r\nfrom Agrippinus till Cyprian? Why, lastly, did so many of\r\nhis colleagues urge that reason and truth must be preferred\r\nto custom, instead of saying that those who wished to act\r\notherwise were acting contrary to truth and custom alike?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-112"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"713e94004d7dd9faa4e54a53d92986cd15620ee06102872aeab1f20bfc5112a9","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_130_130","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_130_130","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_130_130\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_130_130\"><span class=\"label\">[130]</span></a> Cypr. <i>Ep.</i> lxxiii. sec. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_130_130","text_sha256":"608eea7135034e1c6570864c8e1da499b7a19a699ce349e0aaaf9afaeb28af3a","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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