{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>93. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: What is it but sheer madness\r\nto utter these taunts without proving anything? You look at\r\nthe tares throughout the world, and pay no heed to the wheat,\r\nalthough both have been bidden to grow together throughout\r\nthe whole of it. You look at the seed sown by the wicked\r\none, which shall be separated in the time of harvest,<a id=\"FNanchor_821_821\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_821_821\">[821]</a> and you\r\npay no heed to the seed of Abraham, in which all nations of\r\nthe earth shall be blessed.<a id=\"FNanchor_822_822\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_822_822\">[822]</a> Just as though you were already\r\na purged mass, and virgin honey, and refined oil, and pure\r\ngold, or rather the very similitude of a whited wall. For, to\r\nsay nothing of your other faults, do the drunken form a portion\r\nof the sober, or are the covetous reckoned among the\r\nportion of the wise? If men of gentle temper appropriate\r\nthe term of light, where shall the madness of the Circumcelliones\r\nbe esteemed to be, excepting in the darkness? Why\r\nthen is baptism, given by men like these, held valid among\r\nyou, and the same baptism of Christ not held valid, by whatsoever\r\nmen it may be administered throughout the world?<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_313\">[Pg 313]</a></span>\r\nYou see, in fact, that you are separated from the communion\r\nof the whole world in so far as this, that you are not indeed\r\nall drunk, nor all of you covetous, nor all men of violence,\r\nbut that you are all heretics, and, in virtue of this, are all\r\nimpious and all sacrilegious.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-522"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7c01bf056b93cc65232eb525defc7e73ee858e6b25dfc12c5005c7efcb57487c","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":22,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xxii. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_822_822","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_822_822","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_822_822\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_822_822\"><span class=\"label\">[822]</span></a> Gen. xxii. 18.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_822_822","text_sha256":"ed7b8ff348933387eff45642c127399e2a5a5b12059bac3f1d762ee2157cf4b3","verified":false,"work_id":null}