{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. VII.</span>—10. Wherefore, then, have ye severed yourselves?\r\nIf there is any sense left in you, you must surely\r\nsee that you can find no possible answer to these arguments.\r\n\"We are not left,\" they say, \"so utterly without resource, but\r\nthat we can still answer, It is our will. 'Who art thou that\r\njudgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth\r\nor falleth.'\"<a id=\"FNanchor_87_87\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_87_87\">[87]</a> They do not understand that this was said to\r\nmen who were wishing to judge, not of open facts, but of the\r\nhearts of other men. For how does the apostle himself come\r\nto say so much about the sins of schisms and heresies? Or\r\nhow comes that verse in the Psalms, \"If of a truth ye love\r\njustice, judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_88_88\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_88_88\">[88]</a> But why does\r\nthe Lord Himself say, \"Judge not according to the appear<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_42\">[Pg 42]</a></span>ance,\r\nbut judge righteous judgment,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_89_89\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_89_89\">[89]</a> if we may not judge\r\nany man? Lastly, why, in the case of those <i>traditors</i>, whom\r\nthey have judged unrighteously, have they themselves ventured\r\nto pass any judgments at all on another man's servants? To\r\ntheir own master they were standing or falling. Or why, in\r\nthe case of the recent followers of Maximianus, have they not\r\nhesitated to bring forward the judgment delivered with the\r\ninfallible voice, as they aver, of a general Council, in such\r\nterms as to compare them with those first schismatics whom\r\nthe earth swallowed up alive? And yet some of them, as\r\nthey cannot deny, they either condemned though innocent, or\r\nreceived back again in their guilt. But when a truth is\r\nurged which they cannot gainsay, they mutter a truly wholesome\r\nmurmuring: \"It is our will: 'Who art thou that judgest\r\nanother man's servant? to his own master he standeth or\r\nfalleth.'\" But when a weak sheep is espied in the desert, and\r\nthe pastor who should reclaim it to the fold is nowhere to be\r\nseen, then there is setting of teeth, and breaking of the weak\r\nneck: \"Thou wouldst be a good man, wert thou not a <i>traditor</i>.\r\nConsult the welfare of thy soul; be a Christian.\" What unconscionable\r\nmadness! When it is said to a Christian, \"Be a\r\nChristian,\" what other lesson is taught, save a denial that he\r\nis a Christian? Was it not the same lesson which those persecutors\r\nof the Christians wished to teach, by resisting whom\r\nthe crown of martyrdom was gained? Or must we even look\r\non crime as lighter when committed with threatening of the\r\nsword than with treachery of the tongue?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-84"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fb30d9240bb163a0cb1470e9afa4b0672800a2539a453166ed018a2e641f847a","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":58,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. lviii. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_88_88","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_88_88","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_88_88\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_88_88\"><span class=\"label\">[88]</span></a> Ps. lviii. 1; though slightly varied from the LXX.: si vere justitiam diligitis;\r\nfor <i>ει αληθως αρα δικαιοσυνην λαλειτε</i></p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_88_88","text_sha256":"5d43d45e957773d74fa2545926c7af86494067f39554a741e730507ad695c8d5","verified":false,"work_id":null}