{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xcviii.</span>—225. <span class=\"smcap\">Petilianus</span> said: \"On you, yes you,\r\nyou wretched men, I call, who, being dismayed with the fear\r\nof persecution, whilst you seek to save your riches, not your\r\nsouls, love not so much the faithless faith of the traitors, as\r\nthe wickedness of the very men whose protection you have\r\nwon unto yourselves,—just in the same way as sailors, shipwrecked\r\nin the waves, plunge into the waves by which they\r\nmust be overwhelmed, and in the great danger of their lives\r\nseek unmistakeably the very object of their dread; just as the\r\nmadness of a tyrant, that he may be free from apprehension\r\nof any person whatsoever, desires to be feared, though this is\r\nfraught with peril to himself: so, so you fly for refuge to the\r\ncitadel of wickedness, being willing to look on the loss or\r\npunishment of the innocent if you may escape fear for yourselves.\r\nIf you consider that you escape danger when you\r\nplunge into ruin, truly also it is a faith that merits condemnation\r\nto observe the faith of a robber. Lastly, it is trafficking\r\nin a madman's gains to lose your own souls in order not to\r\nlose your wealth. For the Lord Christ says, 'If a man shall\r\ngain the whole world, and lose his own soul, what shall a\r\nman give in exchange for his soul?'\"<a id=\"FNanchor_978_978\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_978_978\">[978]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-654"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"46361cba653ceadb42b1148ec028e6b68740681d56c23b8fa739ff074e4efcf8","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":16,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xvi. 26","verse":26,"verse_end":26}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_978_978","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_978_978","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_978_978\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_978_978\"><span class=\"label\">[978]</span></a> Matt. xvi. 26.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_978_978","text_sha256":"aa16339dd4cbc471177f66c205678aba48d591605fb12e0d5f81c22d6b3160c7","verified":false,"work_id":null}