{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>11. But this, I say, I forbear to urge. Yet one point I\r\nmust press: If the true Church is the one which actually\r\nsuffers persecution, not the one which inflicts it, let them ask\r\nthe apostle of what Church Sarah was a type, when she inflicted\r\npersecution on her handmaid. For he declares that\r\nthe free mother of us all, the heavenly Jerusalem, that is to\r\nsay, the true Church of God, was prefigured in that woman\r\nwho cruelly entreated her handmaid.<a id=\"FNanchor_1197_1197\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1197_1197\">[1197]</a> But if we investigate\r\nthe story further, we shall find that the handmaid rather persecuted\r\nSarah by her haughtiness, than Sarah the handmaid\r\nby her severity: for the handmaid was doing wrong to her\r\nmistress; the mistress only imposed on her a proper discipline\r\nin her haughtiness. Again I ask, if good and holy men never<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_488\">[Pg 488]</a></span>\r\ninflict persecution upon any one, but only suffer it, whose\r\nwords they think that those are in the psalm where we read,\r\n\"I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them; neither\r\ndid I turn again till they were consumed.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1198_1198\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1198_1198\">[1198]</a> If, therefore,\r\nwe wish either to declare or to recognise the truth, there is a\r\npersecution of unrighteousness, which the impious inflict upon\r\nthe Church of Christ; and there is a righteous persecution,\r\nwhich the Church of Christ inflicts upon the impious. She\r\ntherefore is blessed in suffering persecution for righteousness'\r\nsake; but they are miserable, suffering persecution for unrighteousness.\r\nMoreover, she persecutes in the spirit of love,\r\nthey in the spirit of wrath; she that she may correct, they\r\nthat they may overthrow; she that she may recall from error,\r\nthey that they may drive headlong into error. Finally, she\r\npersecutes her enemies and arrests them, until they become\r\nweary in their vain opinions, so that they should make advance\r\nin the truth; but they, returning evil for good, because we\r\ntake measures for their good, to secure their eternal salvation,\r\nendeavour even to strip us of our temporal safety, being so in\r\nlove with murder, that they commit it on their own persons,\r\nwhen they cannot find victims in any others. For in proportion\r\nas the Christian charity of the Church endeavours to\r\ndeliver them from that destruction, so that none of them\r\nshould die, so their madness endeavours either to slay us, that\r\nthey may feed the lust of their own cruelty, or even to kill\r\nthemselves, that they may not seem to have lost the power of\r\nputting men to death.</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-763"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"77f1d97478c3aac7c95729c004780197d5ff2a6528081092538ec751fd8cb11a","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":18,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xviii. 37","verse":37,"verse_end":37}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1198_1198","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_1198_1198","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1198_1198\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1198_1198\"><span class=\"label\">[1198]</span></a> Ps. xviii. 37.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1198_1198","text_sha256":"06a88fe5039092e791c2628ff2f410f0dec4d8143117993e66f6c0721ad3403a","verified":false,"work_id":null}