{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xix.</span>—25. They indeed who say that baptism is not\r\nto be repeated, because only hands were laid on those whom\r\nPhilip the deacon had baptized,<a id=\"FNanchor_161_161\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_161_161\">[161]</a> are saying what is quite\r\nbeside the point; and far be it from us, in seeking the truth,\r\nto use such arguments as this. Wherefore we are all the\r\nfurther from \"yielding to heretics,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_162_162\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_162_162\">[162]</a> if we deny that what they\r\npossess of Christ's Church is their own property, and do not\r\nrefuse to acknowledge the standard of our General because of\r\nthe crimes of deserters; nay, all the more because \"the Lord\r\nour God is a jealous God,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_163_163\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_163_163\">[163]</a> let us refuse, whenever we see\r\nanything of His with an alien, to allow him to consider it\r\nhis own. For of a truth the jealous God Himself rebukes\r\nthe woman who commits fornication against Him, as the type\r\nof an erring people, and says that she gave to her lovers what\r\nbelonged to Him, and again received from them what was not\r\ntheirs but His. In the hands of the adulterous woman and\r\nthe adulterous lovers, God in His wrath, as a jealous God, recognises\r\nHis gifts; and do we say that baptism, consecrated\r\nin the words of the gospel, belongs to heretics? and are we\r\nwilling, from consideration of their deeds, to attribute to them\r\neven what belongs to God, as though they had the power to\r\npollute it, or as though they could make what is God's to be\r\ntheir own, because they themselves have refused to belong\r\nto God?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-120"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2fcb7e075952984fb4d8d6f2fc2bdb7eb0b61a4e8bb408fa29b20fab629f5faf","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DEU","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Deut. iv. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_163_163","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_163_163","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_163_163\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_163_163\"><span class=\"label\">[163]</span></a> Deut. iv. 24.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_163_163","text_sha256":"cbb067f0de10787aad60ccc689fbeae81a6e6699eeab2685ff139960143226ac","verified":false,"work_id":null}