{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XI.</span>—15. They ask also, \"Whether sins are remitted in\r\nbaptism in the party of Donatus:\" so that, if we say that they\r\nare remitted, they may answer, then the Holy Spirit is there;\r\nfor when by the breathing of our Lord the Holy Spirit was\r\ngiven to the disciples, He then went on to say, \"Baptize all\r\nnations in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the\r\nHoly Ghost.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_35_35\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_35_35\">[35]</a> \"Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted\r\nunto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_36_36\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_36_36\">[36]</a>\r\nAnd if it is so, they say, then our communion is the Church\r\nof Christ; for the Holy Spirit does not work the remission of\r\nsins except in the Church. And if our communion is the\r\nChurch of Christ, then your communion is not the Church of\r\nChrist. For that is one, wherever it is, of which it is said,\r\n\"My dove is but one; she is the only one of her mother;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_37_37\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_37_37\">[37]</a>\r\nnor can there be just so many churches as there are schisms.\r\nBut if we should say that sins are not there remitted, then,\r\nsay they, there is no true baptism there; and therefore ought\r\nyou to baptize those whom you receive from us. And since<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_18\">[Pg 18]</a></span>\r\nyou do not do this, you confess that you are not in the\r\nChurch of Christ.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-59"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e939ed3317b4cd3770930eb3857c07e5e105d658b835346c667fd079b970214f","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. 23","verse":23,"verse_end":23}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_36_36","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_36_36","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_36_36\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_36_36\"><span class=\"label\">[36]</span></a> John xx. 23.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_36_36","text_sha256":"deeb4960fa6c5478597e2ebef1defe8627452db81bbb7dd6acb4e6cb5085aa37","verified":false,"work_id":null}