{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>122. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: If we on our side were to\r\nutter against you all that you assert against us, would not\r\nany one who heard us consider that we were rather insane\r\nlitigants than Christian disputants, if he himself were in his\r\nsenses? We do not, therefore, render railing for railing. For\r\nit is not fitting that the servant of the Lord should strive;\r\nbut he should be gentle unto all men, willing to learn, in\r\nmeekness instructing those that oppose themselves.<a id=\"FNanchor_855_855\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_855_855\">[855]</a> If, therefore,\r\nwe reproach you with those who daily do what is evil\r\namong you, we are guilty of striving unbefittingly, accusing\r\none for the sins of another. But if we admonish you, that as\r\nyou are unwilling that these things should be brought against\r\nyourselves, so you should abstain from bringing against us\r\nthe sins of other men, we then in meekness are instructing\r\nyou, solely in the hopes that some time you will return to a\r\nbetter mind.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-551"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2ec57bd245063f689762d954d6685d37217f1bb02eda593472af91ac298ad242","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2TI","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Tim. ii. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_855_855","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_855_855","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_855_855\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_855_855\"><span class=\"label\">[855]</span></a> 2 Tim. ii. 24, 25.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_855_855","text_sha256":"389b55a9e6315ececfbf3f826aa11113b6c266acc71dafaf693e8fafd9433a4a","verified":false,"work_id":null}