{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. ix.</span>—10. Now we must see what is said of the\r\nbaptism of John. For \"we read in the Acts of the Apostles,\r\nthat those who had already been baptized with the baptism\r\nof John were yet baptized by Paul,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_313_313\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_313_313\">[313]</a> simply because the\r\nbaptism of John was not the baptism of Christ, but a baptism\r\nallowed by Christ to John, so as to be called especially\r\nJohn's baptism; as the same John says, \"A man can receive\r\nnothing, except it be given him from heaven.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_314_314\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_314_314\">[314]</a> And that\r\nhe might not possibly seem to receive this from God the\r\nFather in such wise as not to receive it from the Son, speaking\r\npresently of Christ Himself, he says, \"Of His fulness have\r\nwe all received.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_315_315\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_315_315\">[315]</a> But by the grace of a certain dispensation\r\nJohn received this, which was to last not for long, but only\r\nlong enough to prepare for the Lord the way in which he\r\nmust needs be the forerunner. And as our Lord was presently\r\nto enter on this way with all humility, and to lead those\r\nwho humbly followed Him to perfection, as He washed the\r\nfeet of His servants,<a id=\"FNanchor_316_316\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_316_316\">[316]</a> so was He willing to be baptized with the\r\nbaptism of a servant.<a id=\"FNanchor_317_317\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_317_317\">[317]</a> For as He set Himself to minister to\r\nthe feet of those whose guide He was Himself, so He submitted\r\nHimself to the gift of John which He Himself had\r\ngiven, that all might understand what sacrilegious arrogance\r\nthey would show in despising the baptism which they ought\r\neach of them to receive from the Lord, when the Lord Himself\r\naccepted what He Himself had bestowed upon a servant,\r\nthat he might give it as his own; and that when John, than\r\nwhom no greater had arisen among them that are born of\r\nwomen,<a id=\"FNanchor_318_318\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_318_318\">[318]</a> bore such testimony to Christ, as to confess that he\r\nwas not worthy to unloose the latchet of His shoe,<a id=\"FNanchor_319_319\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_319_319\">[319]</a> Christ<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_125\">[Pg 125]</a></span>\r\nmight both, by receiving his baptism, be found to be the\r\nhumblest among men, and, by taking away the place for the\r\nbaptism of John, be believed to be the most high God, at\r\nonce the teacher of humility and the giver of exaltation.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-169"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c82c559d32c6e7be910fdd9e0e8c4d4aed34008fa761994bcc8b58cbf3524749","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John i. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_315_315","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_315_315","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_315_315\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_315_315\"><span class=\"label\">[315]</span></a> John i. 16.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_315_315","text_sha256":"ef6854a10b805642e74797ace67c83ab5b3e595601f1ee191fab3cfa1db5f1fb","verified":false,"work_id":null}