{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xii.</span>—17. What answer they can give about the\r\nfollowers of Maximianus whom they have received, they cannot\r\ndivine. If they say, \"Those we received were innocent,\"\r\nthe answer is obvious, \"Then you had condemned the inno<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_50\">[Pg 50]</a></span>cent.\"\r\nIf they say, \"We did it in ignorance,\" then you\r\njudged rashly (just as you passed a rash judgment on the\r\n<i>traditors</i>), and your declaration was false that \"you must\r\nknow that they were condemned by the truthful voice of a\r\ngeneral Council.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_107_107\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_107_107\">[107]</a> For indeed the innocent could never be\r\ncondemned by a voice of truth. If they say, \"We did not condemn\r\nthem,\" it is only necessary to cite the Council, to cite the\r\nnames of bishops and states alike. If they say, \"The Council\r\nitself is none of ours,\" then we cite the records of the proconsular\r\nprovince, where more than once they quoted the same\r\nCouncil to justify the exclusion of the followers of Maximianus\r\nfrom the basilicas, and to confound them by the din of\r\nthe judges and the force of their allies. If they say that\r\nFelicianus of Musti, and Prætextatus of Assavæ, whom they\r\nafterwards received, were not of the party of Maximianus,\r\nthen we cite the records in which they demanded, in the\r\ncourts of law, that these persons should be excluded from the\r\nCouncil which they held against the party of Maximianus.\r\nIf they say, \"They were received for the sake of peace,\" our\r\nanswer is, \"Why then do ye not acknowledge the only true and\r\nfull peace? Who urged you, who compelled you to receive a\r\nschismatic whom you had condemned, to preserve the peace of\r\nDonatus, and to condemn the world unheard, in violation of\r\nthe peace of Christ?\" Truth hems them in on every side.\r\nThey see that there is no answer left for them to make, and\r\nthey think that there is nothing left for them to do; they cannot\r\nfind out what to say. They are not allowed to be silent.\r\nThey had rather strive with perverse utterance against truth,\r\nthan be restored to peace by a confession of their faults.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-91"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"dcbf5081b4652fc5dc67966f3276394974026b90c4e0fd40fc8c70e44f6e8d11","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_107_107","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_107_107","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_107_107\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_107_107\"><span class=\"label\">[107]</span></a> The Council of Bagai. See above, <span class=\"smcap\">I.</span> v. 7.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_107_107","text_sha256":"c1cf416a5b34ee4b620a9fbd9dace41e40b97dd6dd39f2d84fc793baa085b1af","verified":false,"work_id":null}