{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xviii.</span>—25. Nor, indeed, is it of heresies alone that\r\nthe apostle says \"that they which do such things shall not\r\ninherit the kingdom of God.\" But it may be worth while to\r\nlook for a moment at the things which he groups together.\r\n\"The works of the flesh,\" he says, \"are manifest, which are\r\nthese; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry,\r\nwitchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,\r\nheresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such\r\nlike: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you\r\nin time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit\r\nthe kingdom of God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_284_284\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_284_284\">[284]</a> Let us suppose some one, therefore,\r\nchaste, continent, free from covetousness, no idolater, hospitable,\r\ncharitable to the needy, no man's enemy, not contentious,\r\npatient, quiet, jealous of none, envying none, sober,\r\nfrugal, but a heretic; it is of course clear to all that for this\r\none fault only, that he is a heretic, he will fail to inherit\r\nthe kingdom of God. Let us suppose another, a fornicator,\r\nunclean, lascivious, covetous, or even more openly given to\r\nidolatry, a student of witchcraft, a lover of strife and contention,\r\nenvious, hot-tempered, seditious, jealous, drunken, and\r\na reveller, but a Catholic; can it be that for this sole merit,\r\nthat he is a Catholic, he will inherit the kingdom of God,\r\nthough his deeds are of the kind of which the apostle thus\r\nconcludes: \"Of the which I tell you before, as I have also\r\ntold you in time past, that they which do such things shall\r\nnot inherit the kingdom of God?\" If we say this, we lead\r\nourselves astray. For the word of God does not lead us\r\nastray, which is neither silent, nor lenient, nor deceptive<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_106\">[Pg 106]</a></span>\r\nthrough any flattery. Indeed, it speaks to the same effect\r\nelsewhere: \"For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor\r\nunclean person, nor covetous man, which is an idolater, hath\r\nany inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let\r\nno man deceive you with vain words.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_285_285\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_285_285\">[285]</a> We have no reason,\r\ntherefore, to complain of the word of God. It certainly\r\nsays, and says openly and freely, that those who live a\r\nwicked life have no part in the kingdom of God.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FOURTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-150"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"66c8cb0c55d34d060547db08f495980006f6c3a6651f3feaf6d7e882d8bacdbc","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. v. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_285_285","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_285_285","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_285_285\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_285_285\"><span class=\"label\">[285]</span></a> Eph. v. 5, 6.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_285_285","text_sha256":"600afc363499797ebfa1f0ebac43d4f13a1cb3ae413508ae6f889eec4683f4d1","verified":false,"work_id":null}