Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>232. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: I should like to come to\r\nargument with those who shouted assent when they either\r\nheard or read those words of yours. For such men have not\r\nears in their heart, but their heart in their ears. Yet let\r\nthem read again and again, and consider, and find out for\r\nthemselves, not what the sound of those words is, but what\r\nthey mean. First of all, to sift the meaning of the last\r\nclause, \"So it comes to pass,\" you say, \"that you who had come\r\nto baptism free from sin, return from baptism guilty of the sin\r\nof murder:\" tell me, to begin with, who there is that comes\r\nto baptism free from sin, with the single exception of Him\r\nwho came to be baptized, not that His iniquity should be\r\npurged away, but that an example of humility might be given\r\nus? For what shall be forgiven to one free from sin? Or\r\nare you indeed endowed with such an eloquence, that you can\r\nshow to us some innocence which yet committeth sin? Do\r\nyou not hear the words of Scripture saying, \"No one is clean\r\nfrom sin in Thy sight, not even the infant whose life is but of\r\na single day upon the earth?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_989_989\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_989_989\">[989]</a> For whence else is it that<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_391\">[Pg 391]</a></span>\r\none hastens even with infants to seek remission of their sins?\r\nDo you not hear the words of another Scripture, \"In sin did\r\nmy mother conceive me?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_990_990\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_990_990\">[990]</a> In the next place, if a man returns\r\na murderer, who had come without the guilt of murder,\r\nmerely because he receives baptism at a murderer's hands, then\r\nall they who returned from receiving baptism at the hands of\r\nOptatus were made partakers with Optatus. Go now, and\r\nsee with what face you cast in our teeth that we excite the\r\nwrath of kings against you. Are you not afraid that as many\r\nsatellites of Gildo will be sought for among you, as there are\r\nmen who may have been baptized by Optatus? Do you see\r\nat length how that sentence of yours, like an empty bladder,\r\nhas rattled not only with a meaningless sound, but on your\r\nown head?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-661"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"672f312418f17589cdfd19e600456d6218e7ea612cac7b70b9819fce447471a1","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_989_989","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_989_989","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_989_989\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_989_989\"><span class=\"label\">[989]</span></a> Job xiv., according to the LXX.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_989_989","text_sha256":"645e97f84640128afafe6bf1ad3b6888edeb6fc08c039c481b0069589ba1cfa3","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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