{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>78. To him we answer, that the holy Scriptures nowhere\r\nhave enjoined that heretics baptized among heretics should\r\nbe baptized afresh, but that they have shown in many places\r\nthat all are aliens from the Church who are not on the rock,\r\nnor belong to the members of the dove, and yet that they\r\nbaptize and are baptized, and have the sacrament of salvation<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_190\">[Pg 190]</a></span>\r\nwithout salvation. But how our fountain is like the fountain\r\nof Paradise, in that, like it, it flows forth even beyond the\r\nbounds of Paradise, has been sufficiently set forth above;<a id=\"FNanchor_515_515\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_515_515\">[515]</a>\r\nand that He who is the Shepherd of our flock cannot give\r\nthe water unto salvation to two different peoples, that is, to\r\none that is His own, and to another that is alien, I fully agree\r\nin admitting. But does it follow that because the water is\r\nnot unto salvation it is not the identical water? For the\r\nwater of the deluge was for salvation unto those who were\r\nplaced within the ark, but it brought death to those without,\r\nand yet it was the same water. And many aliens, that is to\r\nsay, envious persons, whom Cyprian declares and proves from\r\nScripture to be of the party of the devil, seem as it were to\r\nbe within, and yet, if they were not without the ark, they\r\nwould not perish by water. For such men are slain by\r\nbaptism, as the sweet savour of Christ was unto death to\r\nthose of whom the apostle speaks.<a id=\"FNanchor_516_516\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_516_516\">[516]</a> Why then do not either\r\nheretics or schismatics receive anything heavenly, just as\r\nthorns or tares, like those who were without the ark received\r\nindeed the rain from the floods of heaven, but to\r\ndestruction, not to salvation? And so I do not take the\r\npains to refute what he said in conclusion: \"When the giver\r\nhas no ground to stand upon, surely neither can the receiver\r\nderive any profit,\" since we also say that it does not profit the\r\nreceivers while they receive it in heresy, consenting with the\r\nheretics; and therefore they come to Catholic peace and unity,\r\nnot that they may receive baptism, but that what they had\r\nreceived may begin to profit them.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-279"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"44022c6539d39ce105038c375ed9ef0894bbd0073ec296ede55ef61d77384667","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_515_515","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_515_515","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_515_515\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_515_515\"><span class=\"label\">[515]</span></a> Ch. xxi. 37.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_515_515","text_sha256":"aea4da654fc0747dc9ec65db935f6a90a32cc1ab220e709b2c836054f9b63e7e","verified":false,"work_id":null}