Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>211. When, therefore, they think over what you quote, they\r\nhear also what you yourself quoted concerning the three children,\r\nand hear it with circumstances of marvellous solemnity.\r\nFor that same Scripture is most of all sung in the Church at\r\na time when the very festal nature of the season excites additional\r\nfervour even in those who, during the rest of the year,\r\nare more given to be sluggish. What then do you think must\r\nbe the feelings of Christian emperors, when they hear of the\r\nthree children being cast into the burning fiery furnace because\r\nthey were unwilling to consent to the wickedness of worshipping\r\nthe image of the king,<a id=\"FNanchor_969_969\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_969_969\">[969]</a> unless you suppose that they con<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_378\">[Pg 378]</a></span>sider\r\nthat the pious liberty of the saints cannot be overcome\r\neither by the power of kings, or by any enormity of punishment,\r\nand that they rejoice that they are not of the number\r\nof those kings who used to punish men that despised idols as\r\nthough they were guilty of sacrilege? But, further, when they\r\nhear in what follows that the same king, terrified by the marvellous\r\nsight of, not only the three children, but the very flames\r\nperforming service unto God, himself too began to serve God\r\nin fear, and to rejoice with reverence, and to learn submission,\r\ndo they not understand that the reason that this was recorded,\r\nand set forth with such publicity, was that an example might be\r\nset both before the servants of God, to prevent them from committing\r\nsacrilege in obedience to kings, and before kings themselves,\r\nthat they should show themselves religious by belief in\r\nGod? Being willing, therefore, on their part, from the admonition\r\nof the very psalm which you yourself inserted in your\r\nwritings, both to be wise, and to receive instruction, and to\r\nserve God with fear, and to rejoice unto Him with reverence,\r\nand to learn submission, with what attention do they listen to\r\nwhat that king said afterwards! For he said that he would\r\nmake a decree for all the people over whom he ruled, that\r\nwhosoever should speak blasphemy against the God of Shadrach,\r\nMeshach, and Abednego should perish, and their house be\r\nutterly destroyed. And if they know that he made this decree\r\nthat blasphemy should not be uttered against the God who\r\ntempered the force of the fire, and liberated the three children,\r\nthey surely go on to consider what decrees they ought to make\r\nin their kingdom, that the same God who has granted remission\r\nof sins, and given freedom to the whole earth, should not\r\nbe treated with scorn among the faithful in their realm.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-640"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0517e73ae7d2a75e7aa99fc53240e22c252666ed6dec37bfe8353346ad25e289","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_969_969","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_969_969","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_969_969\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_969_969\"><span class=\"label\">[969]</span></a> Simulacri; and so the <span class=\"smcap\">MSS.</span> The older editions have \"adorandi simulacra;\"\r\nbut the singular is more forcible in its special reference to the image on the plain\r\nof Dura. Dan. iii.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_969_969","text_sha256":"9e3308a56552de0850ab60abd6113a03154dd405c8b11ee6dc0b605ab6abe6f8","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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