{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>16. To these we reply, following the Scriptures, by asking\r\nthem to answer themselves what they ask of us. For I beg\r\nthem to tell us whether there is any remission of sins where\r\nthere is not charity; for sins are the darkness of the soul.\r\nFor we find St. John saying, \"He that hateth his brother is\r\nin darkness.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_38_38\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_38_38\">[38]</a> But none would create schisms, if they were\r\nnot blinded by hatred of their brethren. If, therefore, we\r\nsay that sins are not remitted there, how is he regenerate\r\nwho is baptized among them? And what is regeneration in\r\nbaptism, except the being renovated from the corruption of\r\nthe old man? And how can he be so renovated whose past\r\nsins are not remitted? But if he be not regenerate, neither\r\ndoes he put on Christ; from which it seems to follow that he\r\nought to be baptized again. For the apostle says, \"For as\r\nmany of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on\r\nChrist;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_39_39\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_39_39\">[39]</a> and if he has not so put on Christ, neither should\r\nhe be considered to have been baptized in Christ. Further,\r\nsince we say that he has been baptized in Christ, we confess\r\nthat he has put on Christ; and if we confess this, we confess\r\nthat he is regenerate. And if this be so, how does St.\r\nJohn say, \"He that hateth his brother remaineth still in\r\ndarkness,\" if remission of his sins has already taken place?\r\nCan it be that schism does not involve hatred of one's\r\nbrethren? Who will maintain this, when both the origin of,\r\nand perseverance in schism consists in nothing else save hatred\r\nof the brethren?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-60"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"69cf73ad5c0e117e015561d40d8b6e7b3fea3d362ef126872780eccbe8460b7a","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. iii. 27","verse":27,"verse_end":27}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_39_39","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_39_39","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_39_39\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_39_39\"><span class=\"label\">[39]</span></a> Gal. iii. 27.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_39_39","text_sha256":"d920526ead42e331690284f235905071e3494c5baf1a1133c4932abe4da374d4","verified":false,"work_id":null}