{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. iii.</span>—5. But I think that we have sufficiently shown,\r\nboth from the canon of Scripture, and from the letters of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_154\">[Pg 154]</a></span>\r\nCyprian himself, that bad men, while by no means converted\r\nto a better mind, can have, and confer, and receive baptism,\r\nof whom it is most clear that they do not belong to the holy\r\nChurch of God, though they seem to be within it, inasmuch as\r\nthey are covetous, robbers, usurers, envious, evil thinkers, and\r\nthe like; whilst she is one dove,<a id=\"FNanchor_397_397\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_397_397\">[397]</a> modest and chaste, a bride\r\nwithout spot or wrinkle,<a id=\"FNanchor_398_398\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_398_398\">[398]</a> a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed, an\r\norchard of pomegranates with pleasant fruits,<a id=\"FNanchor_399_399\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_399_399\">[399]</a> with all similar\r\nproperties which are attributed to her; and all this can only\r\nbe understood to be in the good, and holy, and just,—following,\r\nthat is, not only the operations of the gifts of God, which are\r\ncommon to good and bad alike, but also the inner bond of\r\ncharity conspicuous in those who have the Holy Spirit, to\r\nwhom the Lord says, \"Whose soever sins ye remit, they are\r\nremitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they\r\nare retained.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_400_400\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_400_400\">[400]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-206"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e939ed3317b4cd3770930eb3857c07e5e105d658b835346c667fd079b970214f","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xx. 23","verse":23,"verse_end":23}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_400_400","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_400_400","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_400_400\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_400_400\"><span class=\"label\">[400]</span></a> John xx. 23.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_400_400","text_sha256":"deeb4960fa6c5478597e2ebef1defe8627452db81bbb7dd6acb4e6cb5085aa37","verified":false,"work_id":null}