{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>164. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: I should be glad to utter the\r\nsame sentiment against you, but not in the words which you\r\nhave used: they are too inappropriate, or rather mad. But\r\nwhat was required was, that you should show that we were\r\nwolves and that you were sheep, not by the emptiest of evil-speaking,\r\nbut by some distinct proofs. For when I too have\r\nsaid, We are sheep, and you are wolves, do you think that\r\nthere is any difference caused by the fact that you express\r\nthe idea in swelling words? But listen whilst I prove what\r\nI assert. For the Lord says in the gospel, as you know full\r\nwell, whether you please it or not, \"My sheep hear my\r\nvoice, and follow me.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_888_888\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_888_888\">[888]</a> There are many sayings of the Lord\r\non different subjects; but supposing, for example, that any\r\none were in doubt whether the same Lord had risen in the\r\nbody, and His words were to be quoted where He says,\r\n\"Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as\r\nye see me have;\"—if even after this he should be unwilling\r\nto acquiesce in the belief that His body had risen from the\r\ndead, surely such a man could not be reckoned among the\r\nsheep of the Lord, because he would not hear His voice. And<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_343\">[Pg 343]</a></span>\r\nso too now, when the question between us is, Where is the\r\nChurch? whilst we quote the words that follow in the same\r\npassage of the gospel, where, after His resurrection, He gave\r\nHis body even to be handled by those who were in doubt, in\r\nwhich He showed the future wide extent of the Church, saying,\r\n\"Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer,\r\nand to rise from the dead the third day; and that repentance\r\nand remission of sins should be preached in His name throughout\r\nall nations, beginning at Jerusalem;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_889_889\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_889_889\">[889]</a> whereas you will\r\nnot communicate with all nations, in whom these words have\r\nbeen fulfilled, how are you the sheep of this Shepherd, whose\r\nwords you not only do not obey when you have heard them,\r\nbut even fight against them? And so we show to you from\r\nthis that you are not sheep. But listen further whence we\r\nshow you that, on the contrary, you are wolves. For necessarily,\r\nwhen it is shown by His own words where the Church\r\nis to be found, it is also clear where we must look for the\r\nfold of Christ. Whenever, therefore, any sheep separate\r\nthemselves from this fold, which is expressly pointed out and\r\nshown to us by the unmistakeable declaration of the Lord,—and\r\nthat, I will not say because of charges falsely brought,\r\nbut on account of charges brought, as no one can deny, with\r\ngreat uncertainty against their fellow-men, and consequently\r\nslay those sheep which they have torn and alienated from the\r\nlife of unity and Christian love,—is it not evident that they\r\nare ravening wolves? But it will be said that these very\r\nmen themselves praise and preach the Lord Christ. They\r\nare therefore those of whom He says Himself, \"They come\r\nunto you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening\r\nwolves. By their fruits ye shall know them.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_890_890\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_890_890\">[890]</a> The sheep's\r\nclothing is seen in the praises of Christ; the fruits of their\r\nwolfish nature in their slanderous teeth.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-593"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"677e995e7988a32715929f1b7f61e0b4c7702709b4dec40a26c38ca8ed0ec9ec","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":24,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke xxiv. 39","verse":39,"verse_end":39}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_889_889","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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