{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>26. Who is that adulterous woman whom the prophet Hosea\r\npoints out, who said, \"I will go after my lovers, that give\r\nme my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, and everything\r\nthat befits me?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_164_164\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_164_164\">[164]</a> Let us grant that we may understand<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_74\">[Pg 74]</a></span>\r\nthis also of the people of the Jews that went astray; yet\r\nwhom else are the false Christians (such as are all heretics\r\nand schismatics) wont to imitate, except false Israelites? For\r\nthere were also true Israelites, as the Lord Himself bears\r\nwitness to Nathanael, \"Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom\r\nis no guile.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_165_165\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_165_165\">[165]</a> But who are true Christians, save those of\r\nwhom the same Lord said, \"He that hath my commandments,\r\nand keepeth them, he it is that loveth me?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_166_166\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_166_166\">[166]</a> But\r\nwhat is it to keep His commandments, except to abide in love?\r\nWhence also He says, \"A new commandment I give unto you,\r\nthat ye love one another;\" and again, \"By this shall all men\r\nknow that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_167_167\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_167_167\">[167]</a>\r\nBut who can doubt that this was spoken not only to those who\r\nheard His words with their fleshly ears when He was present\r\nwith them, but also to those who learn His words through the\r\ngospel, when He is sitting on His throne in heaven? For\r\nHe came not to destroy the law, but to fulfil.<a id=\"FNanchor_168_168\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_168_168\">[168]</a> But the fulfilling\r\nof the law is love.<a id=\"FNanchor_169_169\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_169_169\">[169]</a> And in this Cyprian abounded\r\ngreatly, insomuch that though he held a different view concerning\r\nbaptism, he yet did not forsake the unity of the\r\nChurch, and was in the Lord's vine a branch firmly rooted,\r\nbearing fruit, which the heavenly Husbandman purged with\r\nthe knife of suffering, that it should bear more fruit.<a id=\"FNanchor_170_170\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_170_170\">[170]</a> But\r\nthe enemies of this brotherly love, whether they are openly\r\nwithout, or appear to be within, are false Christians, and antichrists.\r\nFor when they have found an opportunity, they go\r\nout, as it is written: \"A man wishing to separate himself\r\nfrom his friends, seeketh opportunities.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_171_171\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_171_171\">[171]</a> But even if occasions\r\nare wanting, while they seem to be within, they are\r\nsevered from that invisible bond of love. Whence St. John\r\nsays, \"They went out from us, but they were not of us; for\r\nhad they been of us, they would no doubt have continued\r\nwith us.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_172_172\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_172_172\">[172]</a> He does not say that they ceased to be of us by\r\ngoing out, but that they went out because they were not of\r\nus. The Apostle Paul also speaks of certain men who had\r\nerred concerning the truth, and were overthrowing the faith<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_75\">[Pg 75]</a></span>\r\nof some; whose word was eating as a canker. Yet in saying\r\nthat they should be avoided, he nevertheless intimates that\r\nthey were all in one great house, but as vessels to dishonour,—I\r\nsuppose because they had not as yet gone out. Or if they\r\nhad already gone out, how can he say that they were in the\r\nsame great house with the honourable vessels, unless it was\r\nin virtue of the sacraments themselves, which even in the\r\nsevered meetings of heretics are not changed, that he speaks\r\nof all as belonging to the same great house, though in different\r\ndegrees of esteem, some to honour and some to dishonour?\r\nFor thus he speaks in his Epistle to Timothy: \"But shun\r\nprofane and vain babblings; for they will increase unto more\r\nungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker; of\r\nwhom is Hymenæus and Philetus; who concerning the truth\r\nhave erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and\r\noverthrow the faith of some. Nevertheless the foundation of\r\nGod standeth firm, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them\r\nthat are His. And, Let every one that nameth the name of\r\nChrist depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are\r\nnot only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and\r\nof earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a\r\nman therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel\r\nunto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and\r\nprepared unto every good work.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_173_173\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_173_173\">[173]</a> But what is it to purge\r\noneself from such as these, except what he said just before,\r\n\"Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from\r\niniquity?\" And lest any one should think that, as being in one\r\ngreat house with them, he might perish with such as these,\r\nhe has most carefully forewarned them, \"The Lord knoweth\r\nthem that are His,\"—those, namely, who, by departing from\r\niniquity, purge themselves from the vessels made to dishonour,\r\nlest they should perish with them whom they are compelled\r\nto tolerate in the great house.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-121"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e8627f0f39a9489f51c3695936abcec44feb359218061a3014d181ea26e56932","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. xiii. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_169_169","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. 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