{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>37. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: If I were to inquire of you by\r\nwhat fruits you know us to be ravening wolves, you are sure\r\nto answer by charging us with the sins of other men, and these\r\nsuch as were never proved against those who are said to have\r\nbeen guilty of them. But if you should ask of me by what\r\nfruits we know you rather to be ravening wolves, I bring\r\nagainst you the charge of schism, which you will deny, but\r\nwhich I will straightway go on to prove; for, as a matter of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_274\">[Pg 274]</a></span>\r\nfact, you do not communicate with all the nations of the earth,\r\nnor with those Churches which were founded by the labour of\r\nthe apostles. Hereupon you will say, \"I do not communicate\r\nwith <i>traditors</i> and murderers.\" The seed of Abraham answers\r\nyou, \"These are those charges which you made, which are\r\neither not true, or have no reference to me.\" But these I set\r\naside for the present; do you meanwhile show me the Church.\r\nNow that voice will sound in my ears which the Lord\r\nshowed was to be avoided in the false prophets who made\r\na show of their several parties, and strove to estrange men\r\nfrom the Catholic Church, \"Lo, here is Christ, or there.\" But\r\ndo you think that the true sheep of Christ are so utterly destitute\r\nof sense, who are told, \"Believe it not,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_733_733\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_733_733\">[733]</a> that they will\r\nhearken to the wolf when he says, \"Lo, here is Christ,\" and\r\nwill not hearken to the Shepherd when He says, \"Throughout\r\nall nations, beginning at Jerusalem?\"</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-466"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ae8c13aa3ef0e81bc7f7c0f4dc1fdd42e306379a0a17b8139bbab79b18fa6478","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":24,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxiv. 23","verse":23,"verse_end":23}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_733_733","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_733_733","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_733_733\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_733_733\"><span class=\"label\">[733]</span></a> Matt. xxiv. 23.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_733_733","text_sha256":"8f5efcb32965e4e0fc63f0c1712e2ff8e30e50aef49a4aab548eb946bd1e1d81","verified":false,"work_id":null}