Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xxii.</span>—26. Lastly, if these two or three words, What\r\nif, and Possibly, are so absolutely intolerable, that on their\r\naccount we should have aroused from their long sleep the\r\nAcademics, and Carneades, and Pilus, and Furius, and Diagoras,\r\nand black snow, and the falling of the sky, and everything\r\nelse that is equally senseless and absurd, let them be\r\nremoved from our argument. For, as a matter of fact, it is by\r\nno means impossible to express what we desire to say without\r\nthem. There is quite sufficient for our purpose in what is\r\nfound a little later, and has been introduced by himself from\r\nmy letter: \"By what means then is he to be cleansed who\r\nreceives baptism when the conscience of the giver is polluted,\r\nand that without the knowledge of him who is to receive the\r\nsacrament?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1089_1089\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1089_1089\">[1089]</a> Do you acknowledge that here there is no\r\nWhat if, no Possibly? Well then, let an answer be given.\r\nGive close heed, lest he be found to answer this in what follows.\r\n\"But,\" says he, \"I bind you in your cavilling to the\r\nfaith of believing, that you may not wander further from it.\r\nWhy do you turn away your life from errors by arguments of\r\nfolly? Why do you disturb the system of belief in respect\r\nof matters without reason? By this one word I bind and\r\nconvince you.\" It was Petilianus that said this, not I. These<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_430\">[Pg 430]</a></span>\r\nwords are from the letter of Petilianus; but from that letter,\r\nto which I just now added the two words which he accuses\r\nme of having suppressed, showing that, notwithstanding their\r\naddition, the pertinency of my question, to which he makes\r\nno answer, remains with greater brevity and simplicity. It\r\nis beyond dispute that these two words are, In holiness, and\r\nWittingly: so that it should not be, \"The conscience of him\r\nwho gives,\" but \"The conscience of him who gives <i>in holiness</i>;\"\r\nand that it should not be, \"He who has received his\r\nfaith from one that is faithless,\" but \"He who has <i>wittingly</i>\r\nreceived his faith from one that is faithless.\" And yet I had\r\nnot really suppressed these words; but I had not found them\r\nin the copy which was placed in my hands. It is possible\r\nenough that it was incorrect; nor indeed is it wholly beyond\r\nthe possibility of belief that even by this suggestion Academic\r\nfury should be roused against me, and that it should be asserted\r\nthat, in declaring the copy to be incorrect, I had said much the\r\nsame sort of thing as if I had declared that snow was black.\r\nFor why should I repay in kind his rash suggestion, and say\r\nthat, though he pretends that I suppressed the words, he really\r\nadded them afterwards himself, since the copy, which is not\r\nangry, can confirm that mark of incorrectness, without any\r\nabusive rashness on my part?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-704"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e06e57226c258239b825ee515aa1b636678e9c5deddddb48e8f737eb4a0f4d2f","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1089_1089","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_1089_1089","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1089_1089\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1089_1089\"><span class=\"label\">[1089]</span></a> See Book <span class=\"smcap\">I.</span> c. ii. sec. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1089_1089","text_sha256":"8c88c61386adf4504b491adf0aa5924b0259ae4cbb83b234efb9ac51498efc63","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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