Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The Donatist treatises have met with little attention from\r\nindividual editors. There is a dissertation, <i>De Aur. Augustino\r\nadversario Donatistarum</i>, by Adrien Roux, published at Louvain\r\nin 1838;<a id=\"FNanchor_4_4\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_4_4\">[4]</a> but it is believed that no treatises of this series\r\nhave ever before been translated into English, nor are they\r\nseparately edited. They are in themselves a valuable authority\r\nfor an important scene in the history of the Church, and\r\nafford a good example both of the strength and the weakness\r\nof Augustine's writing,—its strength, in the exhaustive way\r\nin which he tears to pieces his opponent's arguments, and the\r\nclearness with which he exposes the fallacies of their reasoning;\r\nits weakness, in the persistency with which he pursues\r\na point long after its discussion might fairly have been closed,\r\nas though he hardly knew when he had gained the victory;\r\nand his tendency to claim, by right of his position, a vantage-ground\r\nwhich did not in reality belong to him till the superiority\r\nof his cause was proved.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","PREFACE."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-41"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2785a8005e2929670caa09ba272f1fbf86f0106beca424067fe6d2b881ef620f","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_4_4","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_4_4","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_4_4\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_4_4\"><span class=\"label\">[4]</span></a> The other works bearing on this controversy are mentioned in the exhaustive\r\nvolume of Ferd. Ribbeck, <i>Donatus und Augustinus</i> (Elberfeld, 1858).—<span class=\"smcap\">Ed.</span></p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_4_4","text_sha256":"4f897659d0d8a3e5f9f8537d120f2c836e3eacf49fa6528f6bb01999c0a64e00","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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