{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>206. And when is that fulfilled, you will say, which the\r\nLord declares, \"The time cometh, that whosoever killeth you<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_372\">[Pg 372]</a></span>\r\nwill think that he doeth God service?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_961_961\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_961_961\">[961]</a> At any rate, neither\r\ncan this be said of the heathen, who persecuted Christians,\r\nnot for the sake of God, but for the sake of their idols. You\r\ndo not see that if this had been said of these emperors\r\nwho rejoice in the name of Christian, their chief command\r\nwould certainly have been this, that you should have been put\r\nto death; and this command they never gave at all. But the\r\nmen of your party, by opposing the laws in hostile fashion,\r\nbring deserved punishment on themselves; and their own voluntary\r\ndeaths, so long as they think that they bring odium on\r\nus, they consider in no wise ruinous to themselves. But if\r\nthey think that that saying of Christ refers to kings who\r\nhonour the name of Christ, let them ask what the Catholic\r\nChurch suffered in the East, when Valens the Arian was\r\nemperor. There indeed I might find what I should understand\r\nto be sufficient fulfilment of the saying of the Lord,\r\n\"The time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that\r\nhe doeth God service,\" that heretics should not claim, as conducing\r\nto their especial glory, the injunctions issued against\r\ntheir errors by Catholic emperors. But we remember that\r\nthat time was fulfilled after the ascension of our Lord, of\r\nwhich holy Scripture is known by all to be a witness. The\r\nJews thought that they were doing a service to God when\r\nthey put the apostles to death. Among those who thought\r\nthat they were showing service to God was even our Saul,\r\nthough not ours as yet; so that among his causes for confidence\r\nwhich were past and to be forgotten, he enumerates\r\nthe following: \"An Hebrew,\" he says, \"of the Hebrews; as\r\ntouching the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting\r\nthe Church.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_962_962\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_962_962\">[962]</a> Here was one who thought that he did God\r\nservice when he did what presently he suffered himself. For\r\nforty Jews bound themselves by an oath that they would slay\r\nhim, when he caused that this should be made known to the\r\ntribune, so that under the protection of a guard of armed men\r\nhe escaped their snares.<a id=\"FNanchor_963_963\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_963_963\">[963]</a> But there was no one yet to say to\r\nhim, What have you to do (not with kings, but) with tribunes\r\nand the arms of kings? There was no one to say to him,\r\nDare you seek protection at the hand of soldiers, when your<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_373\">[Pg 373]</a></span>\r\nLord was dragged by them to undergo His suffering? There\r\nwere as yet no instances of madness such as yours; but there\r\nwere already examples being prepared, which should be sufficient\r\nfor their refutation.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-635"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"88d3c2a5e6eb091e9a9a3245cffc65dafda2cc3cf866ec384bdb205447b64614","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":16,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xvi. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_961_961","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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