{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. x.</span>—14. But some one may say that the tares within\r\nmay more easily be converted into wheat. I grant that it is\r\nso; but what has this to do with the question of repeating\r\nbaptism? You surely do not maintain that if a man converted\r\nfrom heresy, through the occasion and opportunity given by\r\nhis conversion, should bear fruit before another who, being\r\nwithin the Church, is more slow to be washed from his iniquity,\r\nand so corrected and changed, the former therefore needs\r\nnot to be baptized again, but the churchman to be baptized\r\nagain, who was outstripped by him who came from the heretics,\r\nbecause of the greater slowness of his amendment. It has\r\nnothing, therefore, to do with the question now at issue who\r\nis later or slower in being converted from his especial waywardness\r\nto the straight path of faith, or hope, or charity. For\r\nalthough the bad within the fold are more easily made good,\r\nyet it will sometimes happen that certain of the number of\r\nthose outside will outstrip in their conversion certain of those\r\nwithin; and while these remain in barrenness, the former, being\r\nrestored to unity and communion, will bear fruit with patience,\r\nthirty-fold, or sixty-fold, or a hundred-fold.<a id=\"FNanchor_228_228\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_228_228\">[228]</a> Or if those only\r\nare to be called tares who remain in perverse error to the end,\r\nthere are many ears of corn outside, and many tares within.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FOURTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-139"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8fd6ce407826f03dac7f16fd8a21bd60dcfc1ca1854bb24abcc3c82d1e1d0c72","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xiii. 23","verse":23,"verse_end":23},{"book":"LUK","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke viii. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_228_228","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_228_228","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_228_228\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_228_228\"><span class=\"label\">[228]</span></a> Matt. xiii. 23; Luke viii. 15.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_228_228","text_sha256":"08d3d7d49df3d7ae1d3c006bd2a894a3f90ed5cb2fd965a754b3f2f99a702a3d","verified":false,"work_id":null}