Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>46. Let them therefore feel bitter grief for their detestable\r\nerror of the past, as Peter did for his fear that led him into\r\nfalsehood, and let them come to the true Church of Christ,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_516\">[Pg 516]</a></span>\r\nthat is, to the Catholic Church our mother; let them be in it\r\nclergy, let them be bishops unto its profit, as they have been\r\nhitherto in enmity against it. We feel no jealousy towards\r\nthem, nay, we embrace them; we wish, we advise, we even\r\ncompel those to come in whom we find in the highways and\r\nhedges, although we fail as yet in persuading some of them\r\nthat we are seeking not their property, but themselves. The\r\nApostle Peter, when he denied his Saviour, and wept, and did\r\nnot cease to be an apostle, had not as yet received the Holy\r\nSpirit that was promised; but much more have these men not\r\nreceived Him, when, being severed from the framework of the\r\nbody, which is alone enlivened by the Holy Spirit, they have\r\nusurped the sacraments of the Church outside the Church and\r\nin hostility to the Church, and have fought against us in a\r\nkind of civil war, with our own arms and our own standards\r\nraised in opposition to us. Let them come; let peace be concluded\r\nin the virtue of Jerusalem, which virtue is Christian\r\ncharity,—to which holy city it is said, \"Peace be in thy virtue,\r\nand plenteousness within thy palaces.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1262_1262\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1262_1262\">[1262]</a> Let them not exalt\r\nthemselves against the solicitude of their mother, which she\r\nboth has entertained and does entertain with the object of\r\ngathering within her bosom themselves, and all the mighty\r\nnations whom they are, or recently were, deceiving; let them not\r\nbe puffed up with pride, that she receives them in such wise;\r\nlet them not attribute to the evil of their own exaltation the\r\ngood which she on her part does in order to make peace.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","A TREATISE CONCERNING THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS; FORMING EPISTLE 185 IN MIGNE'S EDITION OF AUGUSTINE'S WORKS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-800"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2e48d4080c56997b618c83f7a7024b7ae1c81506e7c56dc54810a8db8fc76af2","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":122,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxxii. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1262_1262","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_1262_1262","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1262_1262\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1262_1262\"><span class=\"label\">[1262]</span></a> Ps. cxxii. 6: Fiat pax in virtute tua. The English version is, \"Peace be\r\nwithin thy walls.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1262_1262","text_sha256":"de6dbaaa83b3d310c741648d2e5be0d98365f8b917fd47beba00705b8d39595b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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