{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xxxi.</span>—36. \"And where,\" he says, \"is the word\r\nthat I added, <i>wittingly?</i> so that I did not say, He that has\r\nreceived his faith from one that is faithless; but, He that has\r\nreceived his faith <i>wittingly</i> from one that is faithless, receives\r\nnot faith but guilt.\" He therefore who received his faith\r\nunwittingly from one that was faithless, received not guilt\r\nbut faith; and accordingly I ask from what source he has\r\nreceived it? And being thus placed in a strait, he answers,\r\n\"He ought to have examined him.\" Granted that he ought\r\nto have done so; but, as a matter of fact, he did not, or he\r\nwas not able: what is your verdict about him? Was he\r\ncleansed, or was he not? If he was cleansed, I ask from\r\nwhat source? For the polluted conscience of him that gave<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_440\">[Pg 440]</a></span>\r\nbut not in holiness, with which he was unacquainted, could\r\nnot cleanse him. But if he was not cleansed, command that\r\nhe be so now. You give no such orders, therefore he\r\nwas cleansed. Tell me, by what means? Do you, at any\r\nrate, tell me what Petilianus has failed to tell. For I propose\r\nto you the very same words which he was unable to answer.\r\n\"Behold, the faithless man stands ready to baptize; but he\r\nwho is to be baptized knows nothing of his faithlessness: what\r\ndo you think that he will receive,—faith, or guilt?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1098_1098\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1098_1098\">[1098]</a> This\r\nis sufficient as a constant form of question: answer, or search\r\ndiligently to find what he has answered. You will find abuse\r\nthat has already been convicted. He finds fault with me, as\r\nthough in derision, maintaining that I ought to suggest what\r\nis probable for consideration, since I cannot see the truth.\r\nFor, repeating my words, and cutting my sentence in two, he\r\nsays, \"Behold, you say, the faithless man stands ready to\r\nbaptize; but he who is to be baptized knows nothing of his\r\nfaithlessness.\" Then he goes on to ask, \"Who is the man,\r\nand from what corner has he started up, that you propose to\r\nus?\" Just as though there were some one or two individuals,\r\nand such cases were not constantly occurring everywhere\r\non either side! Why does he ask of me who the man\r\nin question is, and from what corner he has started up,\r\ninstead of looking round, and seeing that the churches are\r\nfew and far between, whether in cities or in country districts,\r\nwhich do not contain men detected in crimes, and degraded\r\nfrom the ministry? While their true character was concealed,\r\nwhile they wished to be thought good, though really\r\nbad, and to be reputed chaste, though really guilty of adultery,\r\nso long they were involved in deceit; and so the Holy Spirit,\r\naccording to the Scripture, was fleeing from them.<a id=\"FNanchor_1099_1099\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1099_1099\">[1099]</a> It is\r\nfrom the crowd, therefore, of these men who hitherto concealed\r\ntheir character that the faithless man whom I suggested started\r\nup. Why does he ask me whence he started up, shutting\r\nhis eyes to all this crowd, from which sufficient noise arises\r\nto satisfy the blind, if we take into consideration none but\r\nthose who might have been convicted and degraded from\r\ntheir office?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-714"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d170732eaa71f17f82f268b8e59c87d72e52b3d9c6030cf8dfb288b28e10a86a","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1099_1099","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. 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