{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>11. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: Why will you put yourself forward\r\nin the room of Christ, when you will not place yourself\r\nunder Him? He is the origin, and root, and head of him\r\nwho is being born, and in Him we feel no fear, as we must\r\nin any man, whoever he may be, lest he should prove to be\r\nfalse and of abandoned character, and we should be found to\r\nbe sprung from an abandoned source, growing from an abandoned\r\nroot, united to an abandoned head. For what man can\r\nfeel secure about a man, when it is written, \"Cursed be the\r\nman that trusteth in man?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_686_686\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_686_686\">[686]</a> But the seed of which we are\r\nborn again is the word of God, that is, the gospel. Whence\r\nthe apostle says, \"For in Christ Jesus I have begotten you\r\nthrough the gospel.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_687_687\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_687_687\">[687]</a> And yet he allows even those to\r\npreach the gospel who were preaching it not in purity, and\r\nrejoices in their preaching;<a id=\"FNanchor_688_688\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_688_688\">[688]</a> because, although they were\r\npreaching it not in purity, but seeking their own, not the\r\nthings which are Jesus Christ's,<a id=\"FNanchor_689_689\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_689_689\">[689]</a> yet the gospel which they\r\npreached was pure. And the Lord had said of certain of like\r\ncharacter, \"Whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe\r\nand do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and\r\ndo not.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_690_690\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_690_690\">[690]</a> If, therefore, what is in itself pure is preached in\r\npurity, then the preacher himself also, in that he is a partner\r\nwith the word, has his share in begetting the believer; but if\r\nhe himself be not regenerate, and yet what he preaches be\r\npure, then the believer is born not from the barrenness of the\r\nminister, but from the fruitfulness of the word.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-440"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b058a539d65d802622c47a4decf4abd6f06c2b6c42346dac0358dd161262a3bd","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":23,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxiii. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_690_690","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_690_690","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_690_690\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_690_690\"><span class=\"label\">[690]</span></a> Matt. xxiii. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_690_690","text_sha256":"dd4b52fc33ede7800d52313efe82cef250691eb6b8aaca94554f869be32a847a","verified":false,"work_id":null}