Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. vii.</span>—25. However, before those laws were sent into\r\nAfrica by which men are compelled to come in to the sacred\r\nSupper, it seemed to certain of the brethren, of whom I was\r\none, that although the madness of the Donatists was raging\r\nin every direction, yet we should not ask of the emperors to\r\nordain that heresy should absolutely cease to be, by sanctioning\r\na punishment to be inflicted on all who wished to live\r\nin it; but that they should rather content themselves with\r\nordaining that those who either preached the Catholic truth\r\nwith their voice, or established it by their study, should no<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_501\">[Pg 501]</a></span>\r\nlonger be exposed to the furious violence of the heretics. And\r\nthis they thought might in some measure be effected, if they\r\nwould take the law which Theodosius, of pious memory,\r\nenacted generally against heretics of all kinds, to the effect\r\nthat any heretical bishop or clergyman, being found in any\r\nplace, should be fined ten pounds of gold, and confirm it in\r\nmore express terms against the Donatists, who denied that they\r\nwere heretics; but with such reservations, that the fine should\r\nnot be inflicted upon all of them, but only in those districts\r\nwhere the Catholic Church suffered any violence from their\r\nclergy, or from the Circumcelliones, or at the hands of any of\r\ntheir people; so that, after a formal complaint had been made\r\nby the Catholics who had suffered the violence, the bishops or\r\nother ministers should forthwith be obliged, under the commission\r\ngiven to the officers, to pay the fine. For we thought that\r\nin this way, if they were terrified, and no longer dared do anything\r\nof the sort, the Catholic truth might be freely taught\r\nand held under such conditions, that while no one was compelled\r\nto it, any one might follow it who was anxious to do\r\nso without intimidation, so that we might not have false and\r\npretended Catholics. And although a different view was held\r\nby other brethren, who either were more advanced in years,\r\nor had experience of many states and places where we saw\r\nthe true Catholic Church firmly established, which had, however,\r\nbeen planted and confirmed by God's great goodness at a\r\ntime when men were compelled to come in to the Catholic\r\ncommunion by the laws of previous emperors, yet we carried\r\nour point, to the effect that the measure which I have\r\ndescribed above should be sought in preference from the\r\nemperors: it was decreed in our council,<a id=\"FNanchor_1226_1226\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1226_1226\">[1226]</a> and envoys were\r\nsent to the court of the count.</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-779"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f81c6a1ab596a1a4a96a25cfb48505ec77908944b002d9ba613addc7fd50719c","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1226_1226","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_1226_1226","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1226_1226\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1226_1226\"><span class=\"label\">[1226]</span></a> That of Carthage, held June 26, 401.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1226_1226","text_sha256":"d41e781ded6b414d1b493b394c080a406e5f04c8b97d6750883b21c3ee513439","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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