Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xxxii.</span>—37. What shall we say of what he himself\r\nadvanced in his epistle, that \"Quodvultdeus, having been convicted\r\nof two adulteries, and cast out from among you, was\r\nreceived by those of our party?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1100_1100\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1100_1100\">[1100]</a> What then (I would speak\r\nwithout prejudice to this man, who proved his case to be a\r\ngood one, or at least persuaded men that it was so), when\r\nsuch men among you, being as yet undetected, administer baptism,\r\nwhat is received at their hands,—faith, or guilt? Surely\r\nnot faith, because they have not the conscience of one who\r\ngives in holiness to cleanse the conscience of the recipient.\r\nBut yet not guilt either, in virtue of that added word: \"For\r\nhe that has received his faith <i>wittingly</i> from one that is faithless,\r\nreceives not faith but guilt.\" But when men were\r\nbaptized by those of whom I speak, they were surely ignorant\r\nwhat sort of men they were. Furthermore, not receiving\r\nfaith from their baptizers, who had not the conscience of one\r\nthat gives in holiness, and not receiving guilt, because they\r\nwere baptized not knowing but in ignorance of their faults,\r\nthey therefore remained without faith and without guilt. They\r\nare not, therefore, in the number of men of such abandoned\r\ncharacter. But neither can they be in the number of the\r\nfaithful, because, as they could not receive guilt, so neither\r\ncould they receive faith from their baptizers. But we see that\r\nthey are reputed by you in the number of the faithful, and\r\nthat no one of you declares his opinion that they ought to be\r\nbaptized, but all of you hold valid the baptism which they\r\nhave already received. They have therefore received faith;\r\nand yet they have not received it from those who had not\r\nthe conscience of one that gives in holiness, to cleanse the\r\nconscience of the recipient. Whence then did they receive\r\nit? This is the point from which I make my effort; this is\r\nthe question that I press most earnestly; to this I do most\r\nurgently demand an answer.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-715"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ceb3c1079482e99d8ecbdcd78ca63352471d6700672c1a1b317886ca49d6ab4e","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1100_1100","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_1100_1100","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1100_1100\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1100_1100\"><span class=\"label\">[1100]</span></a> The Council of Carthage, held on 13th September 401, passed a\r\ndecree in favour of receiving the clergy of the Donatists with full\r\nrecognition of their orders.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1100_1100","text_sha256":"b4e4ec761b8bc51ccadb73e7ade4534edc07ba7761a71fc6bdaab80ec9ac3c86","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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