{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>15. But it will be urged that the bad outside are worse\r\nthan those within. It is indeed a weighty question, whether\r\nNicolaus, being already severed from the Church,<a id=\"FNanchor_229_229\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_229_229\">[229]</a> or Simon,\r\nwho was still within it,<a id=\"FNanchor_230_230\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_230_230\">[230]</a> was the worse,—the one being a\r\nheretic, the other a sorcerer. But if the mere fact of division,\r\nas being the clearest token of violated charity, is held to be\r\nthe worse evil, I grant that it is so. Yet many, though they\r\nhave lost all feelings of charity, yet do not secede from considerations\r\nof worldly profit; and as they seek their own, not<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_94\">[Pg 94]</a></span>\r\nthe things which are Jesus Christ's,<a id=\"FNanchor_231_231\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_231_231\">[231]</a> what they are unwilling\r\nto secede from is not the unity of Christ, but their own temporal\r\nadvantage. Whence it is said in praise of charity, that\r\nshe \"seeketh not her own.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_232_232\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_232_232\">[232]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FOURTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-140"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6f448032c6d3af457ec4438c28caabe903a982e4527089b6f339dbbd48eb3a85","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ACT","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Acts viii. 9-24","verse":9,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_230_230","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_230_230","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_230_230\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_230_230\"><span class=\"label\">[230]</span></a> Acts viii. 9-24.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_230_230","text_sha256":"a12f17bf0b56077aeff26040dc62461538b5e34cb6d41aa465bc16a8ce9ac629","verified":false,"work_id":null}