{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>52. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: In the first place, we reply\r\nwithout delay that we do not kill you, but you kill yourselves\r\nby a true death, when you cut yourselves off from the living\r\nroot of unity. In the next place, if all who are killed are\r\nbaptized in their own blood, then all robbers, all unrighteous,\r\nimpious, accursed men, who are put to death by the sentence\r\nof the law, are to be considered martyrs, because they are\r\nbaptized in their own blood. But if only those are baptized\r\nin their own blood who are put to death for righteousness'\r\nsake, since theirs is the kingdom of heaven,<a id=\"FNanchor_761_761\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_761_761\">[761]</a> you have\r\nalready seen that the first question is why you suffer, and only\r\nafterwards should we ask what you suffer. Why therefore\r\ndo you puff out your cheeks before you have shown the\r\nrighteousness of your deeds? Why does your tongue resound\r\nbefore your character is approved? If you have made a\r\nschism, you are impious; if you are impious, you die as one\r\nguilty of sacrilege, when you are punished for impiety; if\r\nyou die as one guilty of sacrilege, how are you baptized in\r\nyour blood? Or do you say, I have not made a schism?\r\nLet us then inquire into this. Why do you make an outcry\r\nbefore you prove your case?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-481"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d81514533fcc3b334f1ade4a8cd78dee8f6ff281c513c54100496b36f8f5fd12","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. v. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_761_761","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_761_761","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_761_761\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_761_761\"><span class=\"label\">[761]</span></a> Matt. v. 10.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_761_761","text_sha256":"4b628bb08eb86ef368955add2250e42f14ebb8a16feb553bc6c36ed39881296a","verified":false,"work_id":null}