Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. ii.</span>—3. \"When, on the calends of September, very\r\nmany bishops from the provinces of Africa,<a id=\"FNanchor_71_71\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_71_71\">[71]</a> Numidia, and\r\nMauritania, with their presbyters and deacons, had met together\r\nat Carthage, a great part of the laity also being present; and\r\nwhen the letter addressed by Jubaianus to Cyprian, as also the\r\nanswer of Cyprian to Jubaianus, on the subject of baptizing\r\nheretics, had been read, Cyprian said: 'Ye have heard, most\r\nbeloved colleagues, what Jubaianus, our fellow-bishop, has\r\nwritten to me, consulting my moderate ability concerning the\r\nunlawful and profane baptism of heretics, and what answer I\r\ngave him,—giving a judgment which we have once and again\r\nand often given, that heretics coming to the Church ought to\r\nbe baptized, and sanctified with the baptism of the Church.\r\nAnother letter of Jubaianus has likewise been read to you, in\r\nwhich, agreeably to his sincere and religious devotion, in answer\r\nto our epistle, he not only expressed his assent, but returned\r\nthanks also, acknowledging that he had received instruction.\r\nIt remains that we severally declare our opinion on this subject,\r\njudging no one, nor depriving any one of the right of\r\ncommunion if he differ from us. For no one of us sets himself\r\nup as a bishop of bishops, or, by tyrannical terror, forceth\r\nhis colleagues to a necessity of obeying, inasmuch as every\r\nbishop, in the free use of his liberty and power, has the right\r\nof forming his own judgment, and can no more be judged by<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_35\">[Pg 35]</a></span>\r\nanother than he can himself judge another. But we must all\r\nawait the judgment of our Lord Jesus Christ, who alone has\r\nthe power both of setting us in the government of His Church,\r\nand of judging of our acts therein.'\"</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-77"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"37c5203762adccf0785cef7b392976aa023fa0130265a2484711c33e80002de5","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_71_71","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_71_71","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_71_71\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_71_71\"><span class=\"label\">[71]</span></a> That is, the proconsular province of Africa, or Africa Zeugitana, answering\r\nto the northern part of the territory of Tunis.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_71_71","text_sha256":"70e9b11d2b287e9cd9a265520b9e64fb74f45b5e0a49156ac584336de38fb867","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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