{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>65. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: What are you saying, if I may\r\nask? When a dark blue cloud reflects the rays of the sun\r\nwith which it is struck, is it only to the insane, and not to all\r\nwho look on it, that there appear to be two suns? But when\r\nit appears so to the insane as such, it appears to them alone.\r\nBut if I may say so without being troublesome, I would have\r\nyou take care lest saying such things and talking in such a\r\nway should be itself a sign of madness. I suppose, however,\r\nthat what you meant to say was this,—that the just had the\r\ntruth of baptism, the unjust only its reflection. And if this\r\nbe so, I venture to say that the reflection was found in that\r\nman of your party,<a id=\"FNanchor_775_775\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_775_775\">[775]</a> to whom not God, but a certain Count,<a id=\"FNanchor_776_776\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_776_776\">[776]</a>\r\nwas God; but that the truth was either in you or in him who\r\nuttered the witty saying against Optatus, when he said that\r\n\"in the Count he had a god for his companion.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_777_777\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_777_777\">[777]</a> And distinguish\r\nbetween those who were baptized by either of these,\r\nand in the one party approve the true baptism, in the others\r\nexclude the reflection, and introduce the truth.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-494"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9f271a9d6a3b897f179e29411ffc760cf59e85a78bf33b854ccecdec2cf0f7f0","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_777_777","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_777_777","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_777_777\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_777_777\"><span class=\"label\">[777]</span></a> See above, on xxiii. 53.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_777_777","text_sha256":"d0ca0066b9b2122ee851c5f991888e2dee25992c192410226be8aec2e71e80a1","verified":false,"work_id":null}