{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. VIII.</span>—10. Nor indeed were the prayers of the Gentile\r\nCornelius unheard, nor did his alms lack acceptance; nay,\r\nhe was found worthy that an angel should be sent to him, and\r\nthat he should behold the messenger, through whom he might\r\nassuredly have learned everything that was necessary, without\r\nrequiring that any man should come to him. But since all\r\nthe good that he had in his prayers and alms could not benefit\r\nhim unless he were incorporated in the Church by the bond\r\nof Christian brotherhood and peace, he was ordered to send to\r\nPeter, and through him learned Christ; and, being also baptized\r\nby his orders, he was joined by the tie of communion\r\nto the fellowship of Christians, to which before he was bound\r\nonly by the likeness of good works.<a id=\"FNanchor_18_18\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_18_18\">[18]</a> And indeed it would\r\nhave been most fatal to despise what he did not yet possess,\r\nvaunting himself in what he had. So too those who, by separating\r\nthemselves from the society of their fellows, to the\r\noverthrow of charity, thus break the bond of unity, if they\r\nobserve none of the things which they have received in that<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_13\">[Pg 13]</a></span>\r\nsociety, are separated in everything; and so any one whom\r\nthey have joined to their society, if he afterwards wish to\r\ncome over to the Church, ought to receive everything which\r\nhe has not already received. But if they observe some of the\r\nsame things, in respect of these they have not severed themselves;\r\nand so far they are still a part of the framework of\r\nthe Church, while in all other respects they are cut off from\r\nit. Accordingly, any one whom they have associated with\r\nthemselves is united to the Church in all those points in which\r\nthey are not separated from it. And therefore, if he wish to\r\ncome over to the Church, he is made sound in those points in\r\nwhich he was unsound and went astray; but where he was\r\nsound in union with the Church, he is not cured, but recognised,—lest\r\nin desiring to cure what is sound we should rather\r\ninflict a wound. Therefore those whom they baptize they\r\nheal from the wound of idolatry or unbelief; but they injure\r\nthem more seriously with the wound of schism. For idolaters\r\namong the people of the Lord were smitten with the sword;<a id=\"FNanchor_19_19\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_19_19\">[19]</a>\r\nbut schismatics were swallowed up by the earth opening her\r\nmouth.<a id=\"FNanchor_20_20\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_20_20\">[20]</a> And the apostle says, \"Though I have all faith, so\r\nthat I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am\r\nnothing.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_21_21\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_21_21\">[21]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-54"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f3ad8d94112a61546ae89c6d8e3dd72869f4adc690cd2427dffcba0631c1b065","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_20_20","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_20_20","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_20_20\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_20_20\"><span class=\"label\">[20]</span></a> Num. xvi.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_20_20","text_sha256":"9109d28fa3e1d15a29c383a45e0ca21135bf58f48b90fb9c37c18a4193dd4dbf","verified":false,"work_id":null}