{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>44. Further, if we inquire more carefully what is meant by\r\n\"outside,\" especially as he himself makes mention of the rock\r\non which the Church is built, are not they in the Church\r\nwho are on the rock, and they who are not on the rock, not\r\nin the Church either? Now, therefore, let us see whether\r\nthey build their house upon a rock who hear the words of\r\nChrist and do them not. The Lord Himself declares the contrary,\r\nsaying, \"Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and\r\ndoeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built\r\nhis house upon a rock;\" and a little later, \"Every one that\r\nheareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_176\">[Pg 176]</a></span>\r\nlikened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the\r\nsand.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_469_469\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_469_469\">[469]</a> If, therefore, the Church is on a rock, those who are\r\non the sand, because they are outside the rock, are necessarily\r\noutside the Church. Let us recollect, therefore, how many\r\nCyprian mentions as placed within who build upon the sand,\r\nthat is, who hear the words of Christ and do them not. And\r\ntherefore, because they are on the sand, they are proved to be\r\noutside the rock, that is, outside the Church; yet even while\r\nthey are so situated, and are either not yet or never changed\r\nfor the better, not only do they baptize and are baptized, but\r\nthe baptism which they have remains valid in them though\r\nthey are destined to damnation.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-245"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d28615f7f9f5df85d208a7aabaebc2f4603df9d00a0461163039c876976f92f9","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vii. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_469_469","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_469_469","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_469_469\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_469_469\"><span class=\"label\">[469]</span></a> Matt. vii. 24, 26.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_469_469","text_sha256":"71ea0873b7599079905cf65f95762e3b140d4e4327c7b4276c5dcda0ed1edc1c","verified":false,"work_id":null}