{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>31. But we were consoled for the suffering inflicted on us\r\nby these evils, by the fruit which resulted from them. For\r\nwherever such deeds were committed by unbelievers, there\r\nChristian unity has advanced with greater fervency and perfection,\r\nand the Lord is praised with greater earnestness for\r\nhaving deigned to grant that His servants might win their\r\nbrethren by their sufferings, and might gather together into\r\nthe peace of eternal salvation through His blood His sheep\r\nwho were dispersed abroad in deadly error. The Lord is\r\npowerful and full of compassion, to whom we daily pray that\r\nHe will give repentance to the rest as well, that they may\r\nrecover themselves out of the snare of the devil, by whom\r\nthey are taken captive at his will,<a id=\"FNanchor_1231_1231\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1231_1231\">[1231]</a> though now they only\r\nseek materials for calumniating us, and returning to us evil\r\nfor good; because they have not the knowledge to make them\r\nunderstand what feelings and love we continue to have towards\r\nthem, and how we are anxious, in accordance with the injunction\r\nof the Lord, given to His pastors by the mouth of the\r\nprophet Ezekiel, to bring again that which was driven away,\r\nand to seek that which was lost.<a id=\"FNanchor_1232_1232\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1232_1232\">[1232]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","A TREATISE CONCERNING THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS; FORMING EPISTLE 185 IN MIGNE'S EDITION OF AUGUSTINE'S WORKS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-785"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"de1fe8829d4df6f286b3a685f09d0219159e136aae3ee376b9f27daef7313659","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2TI","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Tim. ii. 26","verse":26,"verse_end":26}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1231_1231","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_1231_1231","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1231_1231\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1231_1231\"><span class=\"label\">[1231]</span></a> 2 Tim. ii. 26.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1231_1231","text_sha256":"adbd66cefcdecda3deee8cfa7eca813f0becafb58eaa88efa2459b378d85c699","verified":false,"work_id":null}