{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>187. He says also, like the kindest of teachers, \"You who\r\nwill not choose the good, have, by your own sentence, declared\r\nthat you do not wish to live.\" According to this, if we were\r\nto believe your accusations, we should live in kindness; but\r\nbecause we believe the promises of God, we declare by our\r\nown sentence that we do not wish to live. You remember\r\nwell, it seems to me, what the apostles answered to the Jews\r\nwhen they were desired to abstain from preaching Christ.\r\nThis therefore we also say, that you should answer us whether\r\nwe ought rather to obey God or man.<a id=\"FNanchor_915_915\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_915_915\">[915]</a> <i>Traditors</i>, offerers of\r\nincense, persecutors: these are the words of men against men.\r\nChrist remained only in the love of Donatus: these are the\r\nwords of men extolling the glory of a man under the name of\r\nChrist, that the glory of Christ Himself may be diminished.\r\nFor it is written, \"In the multitude of people is the king's\r\nhonour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the\r\nprince:\"<a id=\"FNanchor_916_916\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_916_916\">[916]</a> these, therefore, are the words of men. But those\r\nwords in the gospel, \"It behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise\r\nfrom the dead the third day; and that repentance and remission\r\nof sins should be preached in His name among all nations,\r\nbeginning at Jerusalem,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_917_917\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_917_917\">[917]</a> are the words of Christ, showing\r\nforth the glory which He received from His Father in the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_357\">[Pg 357]</a></span>\r\nwideness of His kingdom. When we have heard them both,\r\nwe choose in preference the communion of the Church, and\r\nprefer the words of Christ to the words of men. I ask, who\r\nis there that can say that we have chosen what is evil, except\r\none who shall say that Christ taught what was evil?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-616"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3bb601e9e5ee8429b2a1a43b7d7eea14656bc5040ca3991c7c5f03e19d8cda1b","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ACT","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Acts v. 29","verse":29,"verse_end":29}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_915_915","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_915_915","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_915_915\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_915_915\"><span class=\"label\">[915]</span></a> Acts v. 29.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_915_915","text_sha256":"a022fabd8a4cbf0e8b329bf319cb9de3b025d2c29ed2add2e98335f9ade8cd80","verified":false,"work_id":null}