{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>35. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: Their throat is an open sepulchre,\r\nwhence they breathe out death by lies. For \"the mouth\r\nthat belieth slayeth the soul.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_728_728\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_728_728\">[728]</a> But if nothing is more true\r\nthan that which Christ said, that His Church should be throughout\r\nall nations, beginning at Jerusalem, then there is nothing\r\nmore false than that which you say, that it is in the party\r\nof Donatus. But the tongues which have deceived are the\r\ntongues of those who, whilst they are acquainted with their\r\nown deeds, not only say that they are just men, but that they\r\nare justifiers of men, which is said of One only \"that justifieth\r\nthe ungodly,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_729_729\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_729_729\">[729]</a> and that because \"He is just and the justifier.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_730_730\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_730_730\">[730]</a>\r\nAs regards the poison of asps, and the mouth full of cursing<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_273\">[Pg 273]</a></span>\r\nand bitterness, we have said enough already. But you have\r\nyourselves said that the followers of Maximianus had feet\r\nswift to shed blood, as is testified by the sentence of your\r\ngeneral Council, so often quoted in the records of the proconsular\r\nprovince and of the state. But they, so far as we\r\nhear, never killed any one in the body. You evidently, therefore,\r\nunderstood that the blood of the soul was shed in spiritual\r\nmurder by the sword of schism, which you condemned in\r\nMaximianus. See then if your feet are not swift to shed\r\nblood, when you cut off men from the unity of the whole\r\nworld, if you were right in saying it of the followers of Maximianus,\r\nbecause they cut off some from the party of Donatus.\r\nAre we again without the knowledge of the way of peace, who\r\nstudy to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace?\r\nand yet do you possess that knowledge, who resist the discourse\r\nwhich Christ held with His disciples after His resurrection,\r\nof so peaceful a nature that He began it with the\r\ngreeting, \"Peace be unto you;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_731_731\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_731_731\">[731]</a> and that so strenuously that\r\nyou are proved to be saying nothing less to Him than this,\r\n\"What Thou saidst of the unity of all nations is false; what\r\nwe say of the offence of all nations is true?\" Who would say\r\nsuch things as this if they had the fear of God before their\r\neyes? See, therefore, if in daily saying things like this you\r\nare not trying to destroy the people of God dispersed throughout\r\nthe world, eating them up as it were bread.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-464"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"01692d9522024508ab969d489c86b50ef788b00ff960f822f7e9e3789ce06b2f","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xx. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_731_731","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_731_731","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_731_731\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_731_731\"><span class=\"label\">[731]</span></a> John xx. 19, 21.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_731_731","text_sha256":"83a226b51aaf20fad99e1cebdbc2b5827d4bbdab764e020deb7273e25680126e","verified":false,"work_id":null}