{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>37. But if we consider what is said in the Book of\r\nWisdom, \"Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1239_1239\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1239_1239\">[1239]</a> and\r\nalso what is said in the Proverbs, \"The wealth of the sinner\r\nis laid up for the just;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1240_1240\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1240_1240\">[1240]</a> then we shall see that the question\r\nis not, who are in possession of the property of heretics? but\r\nwho are in the society of the just? We know, indeed, that\r\nthe Donatists arrogate to themselves such a store of justice,\r\nthat they boast not only that they possess it, but that they\r\nalso bestow it upon other men. For they say that any one\r\nwhom they have baptized is justified by them, after which\r\nthere is nothing left for them but to say to the person who is\r\nbaptized by them, that he must needs believe on him who has\r\nadministered the sacrament; for why should he not do so,\r\nwhen the apostle says, \"To him that believeth on Him that\r\njustifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1241_1241\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1241_1241\">[1241]</a>\r\nLet him believe, therefore, upon the man by whom he is\r\nbaptized, if it be none else that justifies him, that his faith\r\nmay be counted for righteousness. But I think that even\r\nthey themselves would look with horror on themselves, if they\r\nventured for a moment to entertain such thoughts as these.<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_510\">[Pg 510]</a></span>\r\nFor there is none that is just and able to justify, save God\r\nalone. But the same might be said of them that the apostle\r\nsays of the Jews, that \"being ignorant of God's righteousness,\r\nand going about to establish their own righteousness, they have\r\nnot submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1242_1242\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1242_1242\">[1242]</a></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-791"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"462dc5abcc8b23a8425bfaf7c6af147829573e31aae1cfd592f5db89b6268eae","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. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1242_1242","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_1242_1242","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1242_1242\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1242_1242\"><span class=\"label\">[1242]</span></a> Rom. x. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1242_1242","text_sha256":"34bdae64ff3b31ce7197e0b292b22a1887329cc89dc29185f8c8e453bbc9a28d","verified":false,"work_id":null}