{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>2. For as the spiritual man, keeping \"the end of the commandment,\"\r\nthat is, \"charity out of a pure heart, and of a good\r\nconscience, and of faith unfeigned,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_393_393\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_393_393\">[393]</a> can see some things less\r\nclearly out of a body which is yet \"corruptible and presseth\r\ndown the soul,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_394_394\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_394_394\">[394]</a> and is liable to be otherwise minded in\r\nsome things which God will reveal<a id=\"FNanchor_395_395\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_395_395\">[395]</a> to him in His own good\r\ntime if he abide in the same charity, so in a carnal and perverse\r\nman something good and useful may be found, which has its\r\norigin not in the man himself, but in some other source. For\r\nas in the fruitful branch there is found something which must\r\nbe purged that it may bring forth more fruit, so also a grape\r\nis often found to hang on a cane that is barren and dry or\r\nfettered. And so, as it is foolish to love the portions which\r\nrequire purging in the fruitful branch, whilst he acts wisely\r\nwho does not reject the sweet fruit wherever it may hang, so,\r\nif any one cuts himself off from unity by rebaptizing, simply<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_152\">[Pg 152]</a></span>\r\nbecause it seemed to Cyprian that one ought to baptize again\r\nthose who came from the heretics, such a man turns aside\r\nfrom what merits praise in that great man, and follows what\r\nrequires correction, and does not even attain to the very thing\r\nhe follows after. For Cyprian, while grievously abhorring, in\r\nhis zeal for God, all those who severed themselves from unity,\r\nthought that thereby they were separated from baptism itself;\r\nwhile these men, thinking it at most a slight offence that\r\nthey themselves are severed from the unity of Christ, even\r\nmaintain that His baptism is not in that unity, but issued\r\nforth with them. Therefore they are so far from the fruitfulness\r\nof Cyprian, as not even to be equal to the parts in\r\nhim which needed purging.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-203"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"45603761309bacc6bfab8e9fc894f9aec3969d21bf3b49e106a9989097f16724","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PHP","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Phil. iii. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_395_395","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_395_395","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_395_395\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_395_395\"><span class=\"label\">[395]</span></a> See Phil. iii. 15.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_395_395","text_sha256":"156be86afc732edcbc6485f9391d1783bc9d3e2f5249f16000b428b372db5e0c","verified":false,"work_id":null}