{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>11. For to none of the prophets, to no one at all in holy\r\nScripture, do we read that it was granted to baptize in the\r\nwater of repentance for the remission of sins, as it was\r\ngranted to John; that, causing the hearts of the people to\r\nhang upon him through this marvellous grace, he might\r\nprepare in them the way for Him whom he declared to be\r\nso infinitely greater than himself. But the Lord Jesus\r\nChrist cleanses His Church by such a baptism that on\r\nreceiving it no other is required; while John gave a first\r\nwashing with such a baptism that on receiving it there was\r\nfurther need of the baptism of the Lord,—not that the first\r\nbaptism should be repeated, but that the baptism of Christ,\r\nfor whom he was preparing the way, might be further bestowed\r\non those who had received the baptism of John.\r\nFor if Christ's humility were not to be commended to our\r\nnotice, neither would there be any need of the baptism of\r\nJohn; again, if the end were in John, after his baptism\r\nthere would be no need of the baptism of Christ. But\r\nbecause \"Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to\r\nevery one that believeth,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_320_320\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_320_320\">[320]</a> it was shown by John to whom\r\nmen should go, and in whom, when they had reached Him,\r\nthey should rest. The same John, therefore, set forth both\r\nthe exalted nature of the Lord, when he placed Him far\r\nbefore himself, and His humility, when he baptized Him as\r\nthe lowest of the people. But if John had baptized Christ\r\nalone, he would be thought to have been the dispenser of a\r\nbetter baptism, in that with which Christ alone was baptized,\r\nthan the baptism of Christ with which Christians are baptized;\r\nand again, if all ought to be baptized first with the baptism\r\nof John, and then with that of Christ, the baptism of Christ\r\nwould deservedly seem to be lacking in fulness and perfection,\r\nas not sufficing for salvation. Wherefore the Lord was\r\nbaptized with the baptism of John, that He might bend the\r\nproud necks of men to His own health-giving baptism; and<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_126\">[Pg 126]</a></span>\r\nHe was not alone baptized with it, lest He should show His\r\nown to be inferior to this, with which none but He Himself\r\nhad deserved to be baptized; and He did not allow it to continue\r\nlonger, lest the one baptism with which He baptizes\r\nmight seem to need the other to precede it.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-170"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a5644b5a3256550fbb6abd34ed963c6f50f8fa341b51d8e305420ae146b43e0b","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. x. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_320_320","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_320_320","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_320_320\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_320_320\"><span class=\"label\">[320]</span></a> Rom. x. 4.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_320_320","text_sha256":"2293c07366d22ff11707cddd72994e59df72540e786fbe0b2dc7fbd0e933080d","verified":false,"work_id":null}