{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xi.</span>—16. For this reason, then, we hold them to be\r\nenemies, because we speak the truth, because we are afraid to\r\nbe silent, because we fear to shrink from pressing our point\r\nwith all the force that lies within our power, because we obey\r\nthe apostle when he says, \"Preach the word; be instant in\r\nseason, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_103_103\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_103_103\">[103]</a> But, as the\r\ngospel says, \"They love the praise of men more than the\r\npraise of God;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_104_104\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_104_104\">[104]</a> and while they fear to incur blame for a\r\ntime, they do not fear to incur damnation for ever. They see,\r\ntoo, themselves what wrong they are doing; they see that<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_49\">[Pg 49]</a></span>\r\nthey have no answer which they can make, but they overspread\r\nthe inexperienced with mists, whilst they themselves\r\nare being swallowed up alive,—that is, are perishing knowingly\r\nand wilfully. They see that men are amazed, and look\r\nwith abhorrence on the fact that they have divided themselves\r\ninto many schisms, especially in Carthage,<a id=\"FNanchor_105_105\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_105_105\">[105]</a> the capital and\r\nmost noted city of all Africa; they have endeavoured to patch\r\nup the disgrace of their rags. Thinking that they could annihilate\r\nthe followers of Maximianus, they pressed heavily on\r\nthem through the agency of Optatus the Gildonian;<a id=\"FNanchor_106_106\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_106_106\">[106]</a> they inflicted\r\non them many wrongs amid the cruellest of persecutions.\r\nThen they received back some, thinking that all could be converted\r\nunder the influence of the same terror; but they were\r\nunwilling to do those whom they received the wrong of baptizing\r\nafresh those who had been baptized by them in their schism,\r\nor rather of causing them to be baptized again within their\r\ncommunion by the very same men by whom they had been\r\nbaptized outside, and thus they at once made an exception to\r\ntheir own impious custom. They feel how wickedly they are\r\nacting in assailing the baptism of the whole world, when they\r\nhave received the baptism of the followers of Maximianus. But\r\nthey fear those whom they have themselves rebaptized, lest they\r\nshould receive no mercy from them, when they have shown it\r\nto others; lest these should call them to account for their\r\nsouls when they have ceased to destroy those of other men.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-90"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6643d49621d45efa055c031c51b1ea29824a5796db07490834a4a49839e46c9f","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2TI","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Tim. iv. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_103_103","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_103_103","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_103_103\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_103_103\"><span class=\"label\">[103]</span></a> 2 Tim. iv. 2.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_103_103","text_sha256":"643233ee21cd0e507c4f10c645c9912e6ef3a9cd0e3812103dab866a5efe6912","verified":false,"work_id":null}