{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. x.</span>—43. But this, they say, is the very thing which\r\ndisquiets us,—If we are unrighteous, wherefore do you seek\r\nour company? To which question we answer, We seek the\r\ncompany of you who are unrighteous, that you may not remain\r\nunrighteous; we seek for you who are lost, that we may rejoice\r\nover you as soon as you are found, saying, This our\r\nbrother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is\r\nfound.<a id=\"FNanchor_1255_1255\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1255_1255\">[1255]</a> Why, then, he says, do you not baptize me, that you\r\nmight wash me from my sins? I reply: Because I do not\r\ndo despite to the stamp of the monarch, when I correct the\r\nill-doing of a deserter. Why, he says, do I not even do\r\npenance in your body? Nay truly, except you have done\r\npenance, you cannot be saved; for how shall you rejoice that\r\nyou have been reformed, unless you first grieve that you had\r\nbeen astray? What, then, he says, do we receive with you,\r\nwhen we come over to your side? I answer, You do not\r\nindeed receive baptism, which was able to exist in you outside\r\nthe framework of the body of Christ, although it could\r\nnot profit you; but you receive the unity of the Spirit in the\r\nbond of peace,<a id=\"FNanchor_1256_1256\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1256_1256\">[1256]</a> without which no one can see God; and you\r\nreceive charity, which, as it is written, \"shall cover the multitude\r\nof sins.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1257_1257\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1257_1257\">[1257]</a> And in regard to this great blessing, without\r\nwhich we have the apostle's testimony that neither the\r\ntongues of men or of angels, nor the understanding of all\r\nmysteries, nor the gift of prophecy, nor faith so great as to be\r\nable to remove mountains, nor the bestowal of all one's goods\r\nto feed the poor, nor giving one's body to be burned, can profit\r\nanything;<a id=\"FNanchor_1258_1258\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1258_1258\">[1258]</a> if, I say, you think this mighty blessing to be\r\nworthless or of trifling value, you are deservedly but miserably<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_514\">[Pg 514]</a></span>\r\nastray; and deservedly you must necessarily perish, unless you\r\ncome over to Catholic unity.</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-797"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"20c70ae0661bf22730ed3e0e14835da8a0d98f972ac7ceb36af93f1fb0e18414","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":15,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke xv. 32","verse":32,"verse_end":32}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1255_1255","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_1255_1255","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1255_1255\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1255_1255\"><span class=\"label\">[1255]</span></a> Luke xv. 32.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1255_1255","text_sha256":"cf82a27d75f9e6e62ad660de515f863ad9cd283ead018d73a69b435898bf3e92","verified":false,"work_id":null}