{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xi.</span>—13. For we must look at the point which especially\r\nconcerns the matter before us (whatever be the nature\r\nof the baptism of John, since it is clear that he belongs to\r\nthe unity of Christ), viz., what is the reason for which it\r\nwas right that men should be baptized again after receiving\r\nthe baptism of the holy John, and why they ought not to be\r\nbaptized again after receiving the baptism of the covetous\r\nbishops. For no one denies that in the Lord's field John\r\nwas as wheat, bearing an hundred-fold, if that be the highest\r\nrate of increase; also no one doubts that covetousness, which\r\nis idolatry, is reckoned in the Lord's harvest among the chaff.\r\nWhy then is a man baptized again after receiving baptism\r\nfrom the wheat, and not after receiving it from the chaff? If\r\nit was because he was better than John that Paul baptized\r\nafter John, why did not also Cyprian baptize after his usurious\r\ncolleagues, than whom he was better beyond all comparison?\r\nIf it was because they were in unity with him that he did not\r\nbaptize after such colleagues, neither ought Paul to have baptized\r\nafter John, because they were joined together in the\r\nsame unity. Can it be that defrauders and extortioners belong\r\nto the members of that one dove, and that he does not belong\r\nto it to whom the full power of the Lord Jesus Christ was\r\nshown by the appearance of the Holy Spirit in the form of a\r\ndove?<a id=\"FNanchor_327_327\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_327_327\">[327]</a> Truly he belongs most closely to it; but the others,\r\nwho must be separated from it either by the occasion of some\r\nscandal, or by the winnowing at the last day, do not by any\r\nmeans belong to it, and yet baptism was repeated after John\r\nand not after them. What then is the cause, except that the\r\nbaptism which Paul ordered them to receive was not the same\r\nas that which was given at the hands of John? And so in\r\nthe same unity of the Church, the baptism of Christ cannot\r\nbe repeated though it be given by an usurious minister; but\r\nthose who receive the baptism of John, even from the hands\r\nof John himself, ought to be afterwards baptized with the\r\nbaptism of Christ.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-172"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"12e0ced9310d448855b89bc5262ff3bd4d107dbd93102910e334658de155b3d8","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. iii. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16},{"book":"JHN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John i. 33","verse":33,"verse_end":33}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_327_327","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_327_327","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_327_327\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_327_327\"><span class=\"label\">[327]</span></a> Matt. iii. 16; John i. 33.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_327_327","text_sha256":"9e0b85494fe949c8de711029926d73374e9dd0130ff841a534b02f3eaaa5d7a9","verified":false,"work_id":null}