Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>49. How great a condemnation have we here of all schismatics,\r\nwho have separated themselves by wicked sacrilege\r\nfrom the inheritance of Christ dispersed throughout the whole\r\nworld, if Cyprian held communion with such as was the\r\ntraitor Judas, and yet was not defiled by them; or if he was\r\ndefiled, then were all made such as Judas; or if they were\r\nnot, then the evil deeds of those who went before do not<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_211\">[Pg 211]</a></span>\r\nbelong to those who came after, even though they were the\r\noffspring of the same communion. Why, therefore, do they\r\ncast in our teeth the <i>traditores</i>, against whom they did not\r\nprove their charge, and do not cast in their own teeth Judas,\r\nwith whom Cyprian and his colleagues held communion?\r\nBehold the Council in which these men are wont to boast!\r\nWe indeed say, that he who approves the baptism of Christ\r\neven in heretics, does not betray to heretics the baptism of\r\nChrist; just in the same way as he does not betray to murderers\r\nthe baptism of Christ who approves the baptism of Christ even\r\nin murderers: but inasmuch as they profess to prescribe to us\r\nfrom the decrees of this Council what opinions we ought to\r\nhold, let them first assent to it themselves. See how therein\r\nwere compared to the traitor Judas, all who said that heretics,\r\nalthough baptized in heresy, yet should not be baptized again.\r\nYet with such Cyprian was willing to hold communion, when\r\nhe said, \"Judging no man, nor depriving any of the right of\r\ncommunion if he entertain a contrary opinion.\" But that\r\nthere had been men of such a sort in former times within\r\nthe Church, is made clear by the sentence in which he says:\r\n\"But some one will say, What, then, shall be done with these\r\nmen who in times past were admitted into the Church without\r\nbaptism?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_576_576\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_576_576\">[576]</a> That such had been the custom of the\r\nChurch, is testified again and again by the very men who\r\ncompose this Council. If, therefore, any one who does this\r\n\"can be said to be nothing else but a Judas to the Bride of\r\nChrist,\" according to the terms in which the judgment of\r\nTherapius is couched; but Judas, according to the teaching\r\nof the gospel, was a traitor; then all those men held communion\r\nwith traitors who at that time uttered those very\r\njudgments, and before they uttered them they all had become\r\ntraitors through that custom which at that time was retained\r\nby the Church. All, therefore—that is to say, both we and\r\nthey themselves who were the offspring of that unity—are\r\ntraitors. But we defend ourselves in two ways: first, because\r\nwithout prejudice to the right of unity, as Cyprian himself\r\ndeclared in his opening speech, we do not assent to the\r\ndecrees of this Council in which this judgment was pro<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_212\">[Pg 212]</a></span>nounced;\r\nand secondly, because we hold that the wicked in\r\nno way hurt the good in Catholic unity, until at the last the\r\nchaff be separated from the wheat. But our opponents, inasmuch\r\nas they both shelter themselves as it were under the\r\ndecrees of this Council, and maintain that the good perish as\r\nby a kind of infection from communion with the wicked, have\r\nno resource to save them from allowing both that the earlier\r\nChristians, whose offspring they are, were traitors, inasmuch\r\nas they are convicted by their own Council; and that the\r\ndeeds of those who went before them do reflect on them,\r\nsince they throw in our teeth the deeds of our ancestors.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SEVENTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-338"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"246f7304278425af0568a61ca5abc96e595f3630608ea8ece0ec03bd6a7cbe65","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_576_576","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. 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