{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. x.</span>—11. Lastly, if they are willing to give the name\r\nof dead neither to the wicked man whose sin is hidden, nor\r\nto him whose sin is manifest, but who has yet not been condemned\r\nby them, but only to him whose sin is manifest and\r\ncondemned, so that whosoever is baptized by him is himself\r\nbaptized by the dead, and his washing profits him nothing;\r\nwhat are we to say of those whom their own party have condemned\r\n\"by the unimpeachable voice of a general Council,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_660_660\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_660_660\">[660]</a>\r\ntogether with Maximianus and the others who ordained him,—I\r\nmean Felicianus of Musti, and Prætextatus of Assura, of whom\r\nI speak in the meantime, who are counted among the twelve\r\nordainers of Maximianus, as erecting an altar in opposition to\r\ntheir altar at which Primianus stands? They at any rate\r\nare reckoned by them among the dead. To this we have the\r\nexpress testimony of the noble decree of that Council of theirs\r\nwhich formerly called forth shouts of unreserved<a id=\"FNanchor_661_661\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_661_661\">[661]</a> applause\r\nwhen it was recited among them for the purpose of being\r\ndecreed, but which would now be received in silence if we\r\nshould chance to recite it in their ears; whereas they should<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_240\">[Pg 240]</a></span>\r\nrather have been slow at first to rejoice in its eloquence, lest\r\nthey should afterwards come to mourn over it when its credit\r\nwas destroyed. For in it they speak in the following terms\r\nof the followers of Maximianus, who were shut out from their\r\ncommunion: \"Seeing that the shipwrecked members of certain\r\nmen have been dashed by the waves of truth upon the\r\nsharp rocks, and after the fashion of the Egyptians, the\r\nshores are covered with the bodies of the dying; whose\r\npunishment is intensified in death itself, since after their life\r\nhas been wrung from them by the avenging waters, they fail\r\nto find so much as burial.\" In such gross terms, indeed, do\r\nthey insult those who were guilty of schism from their body,\r\nthat they call them dead and unburied; but certainly they\r\nought to have wished that they might obtain burial, if it were\r\nonly that they might not have seen Optatus Gildonianus advancing\r\nwith a military force, and like a sweeping wave that\r\ndashes beyond its fellows, sucking back Felicianus and Prætextatus\r\nonce again within their pale, out of the multitude of\r\nbodies lying unburied on the shore.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-407"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3408ba0fe2d2f56c385a3963d96d20de4ae1bab7c82c7e0b5e91c45d95ea85c7","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_660_660","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_660_660","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_660_660\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_660_660\"><span class=\"label\">[660]</span></a> That of Bagai. See on <i>de Bapt.</i> <span class=\"smcap\">I.</span> v. 7.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_660_660","text_sha256":"bebb0f02a2124733b01698e01ec21d5281102596a39dcba4771e96949e5948f5","verified":false,"work_id":null}