{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xliv.</span>—53. Then a little after, as he had said, \"This\r\nbeing so, brethren, what perversity must that be, that he who\r\nis guilty by reason of his own faults should make another free\r\nfrom guilt, whereas the Lord Jesus Christ says, 'Every good\r\ntree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth\r\nevil fruit: do men gather grapes of thorns?'<a id=\"FNanchor_1122_1122\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1122_1122\">[1122]</a> and again,\r\n'A good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, bringeth\r\nforth good things: and an evil man, out of the evil treasure,\r\nbringeth forth evil things,'\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1123_1123\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1123_1123\">[1123]</a>—by which words Petilianus\r\nshowed with sufficient clearness, that the man who baptizes\r\nis to be looked on as the tree, and he who is baptized as the\r\nfruit: to this I had answered, If the good tree is the good\r\nbaptizer, and his good fruit he whom he has baptized, then\r\nany one who has been baptized by a bad man, even if his\r\nwickedness be not manifest, cannot by any possibility be good,\r\nfor he is sprung from an evil tree. For a good tree is one\r\nthing; a tree whose quality is concealed, but yet bad, is another.\r\nWhat else did I wish to be understood by those words, except\r\nwhat I had stated a little above, that the tree and its fruit\r\ndo not represent him that baptizes and him that is baptized;\r\nbut that the man ought to be received as signified by the\r\ntree, his works and his life by the fruit, which are always\r\ngood in the good man, and evil in the evil man, lest this\r\nabsurdity should follow, that a man should be bad when bap<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_456\">[Pg 456]</a></span>tized\r\nby a bad man, even though his wickedness were concealed,\r\nbeing, as it were, the fruit of a tree whose quality was\r\nunknown, but yet bad? To which he has answered nothing\r\nwhatsoever.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-732"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3850ed08ae17ef424abc33c13607faf8713edc7e26fa120fc650e5653bf09d89","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xii. 35","verse":35,"verse_end":35}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1123_1123","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_1123_1123","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1123_1123\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1123_1123\"><span class=\"label\">[1123]</span></a> Matt. xii. 35.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1123_1123","text_sha256":"afe1eb9bca35e8cba18a36f41d22e49b8a041807a139be91bc6ebadfbf1d7043","verified":false,"work_id":null}