{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>60. To this we answer: Are the unrighteous Christians or\r\nnot? If they are Christians, why are they not on that rock\r\non which the Church is built? for they hear the words of\r\nChrist and do them not. If they are not Christians, let\r\nthem be made so. Else what will be the reference in the\r\ndiscourse of our Lord, in which He says, \"He that is not\r\nwith me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me\r\nscattereth abroad?\" For they scatter His sheep who lead\r\nthem to the ruin of their lives by a false imitation of the\r\nLord. Whence it is clear that upon strange children (as all\r\nthe unrighteous are called), and upon the offspring of Antichrist\r\n(which all are who oppose themselves to Christ), the\r\nHoly Spirit cannot descend by the laying on of hands alone,\r\nif there be not added a true conversion of the heart; since it\r\nis clear that the unrighteous, so long as they are unrighteous,\r\nmay indeed have baptism, but cannot have the salvation of\r\nwhich baptism is the sacrament. For let us see whether\r\nheretics are described in that psalm where the following\r\nwords are used of strange children: \"Deliver me, O Lord,\r\nfrom the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh\r\nvanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:\r\nwhose sons are like young shoots well established, and their\r\ndaughters polished after the similitude of the temple. Their\r\ngarners are full, affording all manner of store; their sheep are\r\nfruitful, bringing forth plenteously in their streets; their oxen\r\nare strong: there is no breaking down of their fence, no opening\r\nof a passage out, no complaining in their streets. Men\r\ndeemed happy the people that is in such a case; rather\r\nblessed is the people whose God is the Lord.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_492_492\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_492_492\">[492]</a> If, therefore,\r\nthose are strange children who place their happiness in temporal\r\nthings, and in the abundance of earthly prosperity, and\r\ndespise the commandments of the Lord, let us see whether\r\nthese are not the very same of whom Cyprian so speaks,\r\nmaking himself also as one of them, that he may show that\r\nhe is speaking of men with whom he held communion in the\r\nsacraments: \"In not keeping,\" he says, \"the way of the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_184\">[Pg 184]</a></span>\r\nLord, nor observing the heavenly commandments given us\r\nfor our salvation. Our Lord did the will of His Father, and\r\nwe do not do the will of the Lord, being eager about our\r\npatrimony or our gains, following after pride, and so forth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_493_493\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_493_493\">[493]</a>\r\nBut if these could both have and transmit baptism, why is it\r\ndenied that it may exist among strange children, whom he\r\nyet exhorts, that, by keeping the heavenly commandments conveyed\r\nto them through the only-begotten Son, they should\r\ndeserve to be His brethren and the sons of God?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-261"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4fa97fe0b04b0c35eeafb245a2ee7e16f0e5292b785b95154e519c9eb7ea31c1","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_493_493","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_493_493","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_493_493\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_493_493\"><span class=\"label\">[493]</span></a> Cypr. <i>Ep.</i> xi. ad Clericos, sec. 1.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_493_493","text_sha256":"06987b2c584ff451b9ce86911a1d13580da8d1465d40875a5c0a096f110f1127","verified":false,"work_id":null}