{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>20. Seeing, then, that the kings of the earth were not yet\r\nserving the Lord in the time of the apostles, but were still\r\nimagining vain things against the Lord and against His\r\nAnointed, that all might be fulfilled which was spoken by the\r\nprophets, it must be granted that at that time acts of impiety\r\ncould not possibly be prevented by the laws, but were rather\r\nperformed under their sanction. For the order of events was\r\nthen so rolling on, that even the Jews were killing those who\r\npreached Christ, thinking that they did God service in so\r\ndoing, just as Christ had foretold,<a id=\"FNanchor_1209_1209\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1209_1209\">[1209]</a> and the heathen were\r\nraging against the Christians, and the patience of the martyrs\r\nwas overcoming them all. But so soon as the fulfilment began\r\nof what is written in a later psalm, \"All kings shall fall down\r\nbefore Him; all nations shall serve Him,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1210_1210\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1210_1210\">[1210]</a> what sober-minded\r\nman could say to the kings, \"Let not any thought trouble you\r\nwithin your kingdom as to who restrains or attacks the Church\r\nof your Lord; deem it not a matter in which you should be\r\nconcerned, which of your subjects may choose to be religious\r\nor sacrilegious,\" seeing that you cannot say to them, \"Deem it\r\nno concern of yours which of your subjects may choose to be\r\nchaste, or which unchaste?\" For why, when free-will is given\r\nby God to man, should adulteries be punished by the laws,\r\nand sacrilege allowed? Is it a lighter matter that a soul\r\nshould not keep faith with God, than that a woman should be\r\nfaithless to her husband? Or if those faults which are committed\r\nnot in contempt but in ignorance of religious truth are\r\nto be visited with lighter punishment, are they therefore to be\r\nneglected altogether?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","A TREATISE CONCERNING THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS; FORMING EPISTLE 185 IN MIGNE'S EDITION OF AUGUSTINE'S WORKS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-772"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"88d3c2a5e6eb091e9a9a3245cffc65dafda2cc3cf866ec384bdb205447b64614","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":16,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xvi. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1209_1209","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_1209_1209","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1209_1209\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1209_1209\"><span class=\"label\">[1209]</span></a> John xvi. 2.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1209_1209","text_sha256":"174c7c713d7e27e59f641a0a92b1a2a47d7b5a7907cbdcf8d7970d3148d5c46c","verified":false,"work_id":null}