Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>19. It is not therefore true that \"by baptizing first, the\r\nheretic obtains the right of baptism;\"<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_340_340\">[340]</a> but because he did\r\nnot baptize with his own baptism, and though he did not\r\npossess the right of baptizing, yet that which he gave is\r\nChrist's, and he who received it is Christ's. For many things\r\nare given wrongfully, and yet they are not therefore said\r\nto be non-existent or not given at all. For neither does\r\nhe who renounces the world in word only and not in deed\r\nreceive baptism lawfully, and yet he does receive it. For\r\nboth Cyprian records that there were such men in the\r\nChurch in his day, and we ourselves experience and lament\r\nthe fact.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-178"},{"context_html":"<p>20. But it is strange in what sense it can be said that\r\n\"baptism and the Church cannot in any way be separated and\r\ndetached from one another.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_340_340\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_340_340\">[340]</a> For if baptism remains inseparably\r\nin him who is baptized, how can it be that he can be\r\nseparated from the Church, and baptism cannot? But it is\r\nclear that baptism does remain inseparably in the baptized\r\nperson; because into whatever depth of evil, and into whatever\r\nfearful whirlpool of sin the baptized person may fall, even\r\nto the ruin of apostasy, he yet is not bereft of his baptism.<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_132\">[Pg 132]</a></span>\r\nAnd therefore, if through repentance he returns, it is not given\r\nagain, because it is judged that he could not have been without\r\nit even in his sin. But who can ever doubt that a\r\nbaptized person can be separated from the Church? For\r\nhence all the heresies have proceeded which deceive by the\r\nuse of Christian terms.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-179"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fe63fb763138e5e09ab3b1ba4829d0f2e07949d7a250514fcb90d945a2e34257","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_340_340","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_340_340","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_340_340\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_340_340\"><span class=\"label\">[340]</span></a> Cypr. <i>Ep.</i> lxxiii. sec. 22.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_340_340","text_sha256":"cf9f371f63843395724b9ddcaad965db180966b9283c3c9bcf706db0b76358c1","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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