{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>150. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: You have proved neither point,—neither\r\nthat you yourselves are righteous, nor that we inflict\r\npunishment on even the unrighteous; and yet, even as false\r\nflattery is generally cruel, so just correction is ever merciful.\r\nFor whence is that which you do not understand: \"Let the\r\nrighteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; and let him reprove\r\nme?\" For while he says this of the severity of merciful correction,\r\nthe Psalmist immediately went on to say of the gentleness\r\nof destructive flattery, \"But the oil of sinners shall not\r\nbreak my head.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_873_873\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_873_873\">[873]</a> Do you therefore consider whither you are\r\ncalled, and from what you are summoned away. For how do\r\nyou know what feelings he entertains towards you whom you\r\nsuppose to be cruel? But whatever be his feelings, every one\r\nmust bear his own burden both with us and with you. But I\r\nwould have you cast away the burden of schism which you\r\nall of you are bearing, that you may bear your good burdens in\r\nunity; and I would bid you mercifully correct, if you should\r\nhave the power, all those who are bearing evil burdens; and\r\nif this be beyond your power, I would bid you bear with them\r\nin peace.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-579"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d19b0ac9186eee2be585b083269b06296c9258cca1936d946267e04974bf1956","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":141,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxli. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_873_873","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_873_873","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_873_873\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_873_873\"><span class=\"label\">[873]</span></a> Ps. cxli. 5, from the LXX.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_873_873","text_sha256":"494b47f3efeaa61a4d2eb6227afb5019a92987cd84b801f4c2c435f47aa2e46c","verified":false,"work_id":null}