{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xviii.</span>—40. <span class=\"smcap\">Petilianus</span> said: \"Nor is it, after all, so\r\nstrange that you assume to yourself the name of bishop without\r\nauthority. This is the true custom of the devil, to choose in\r\npreference a mode of deceiving by which he usurps to himself\r\na word of holy meaning, as the apostle declares to us: 'And no\r\nmarvel,' he says; 'for Satan himself is transformed into an\r\nangel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers\r\nalso be transformed as the ministers of righteousness.'<a id=\"FNanchor_734_734\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_734_734\">[734]</a> Nor is it\r\ntherefore a marvel if you falsely call yourself a bishop. For even<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_275\">[Pg 275]</a></span>\r\nthose fallen angels, lovers of the maidens of the world, who were\r\ncorrupted by the corruption of their flesh, though, from having\r\nstripped themselves of divine excellence, they have ceased to be\r\nangels, yet retain the name of angels, and always esteem themselves\r\nas angels, though, being released from the service of God,\r\nthey have passed from the likeness of their character into the\r\narmy of the devil, as the great God declares, 'My spirit shall\r\nnot always strive with man, for that he also is flesh.'<a id=\"FNanchor_735_735\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_735_735\">[735]</a> To\r\nthose guilty ones and to you the Lord Christ will say, 'Depart\r\nfrom me, ye cursed ones, into everlasting fire, prepared for the\r\ndevil and his angels.'<a id=\"FNanchor_736_736\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_736_736\">[736]</a> If there were no evil angels, the devil\r\nwould have no angels; of whom the apostle says, that in the\r\njudgment of the resurrection they shall be condemned by the\r\nsaints: 'Know ye not,' says he, 'that we shall judge angels?'<a id=\"FNanchor_737_737\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_737_737\">[737]</a>\r\nIf they were true angels, men would not have authority to\r\njudge the angels of God. So too those sixty apostles, who,\r\nwhen the twelve were left alone with the Lord Christ, departed\r\nin apostasy from the faith, are so far yet considered among\r\nwretched men to be apostles, that from them Manichæus and\r\nthe rest entangle many souls in many devilish sects which\r\nthey destroyed<a id=\"FNanchor_738_738\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_738_738\">[738]</a> that they might take them in their snares.\r\nFor indeed the fallen Manichæus, if fallen he was, is not to\r\nbe reckoned among those sixty, if it be that we can find his\r\nname as an apostle among the twelve, or if he was ordained\r\nby the voice of Christ when Matthias was elected into the\r\nplace of the traitor Judas, or another thirteenth like Paul, who\r\ncalls himself the last<a id=\"FNanchor_739_739\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_739_739\">[739]</a> of the apostles, expressly that any one\r\nwho was later than himself might not be held to be an apostle.\r\nFor these are his words: 'For I am the last of the apostles,\r\nthat am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted\r\nthe Church of God.'<a id=\"FNanchor_740_740\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_740_740\">[740]</a> And do not flatter yourselves in this:\r\nhe was a Jew that had done this. You too, as Gentiles, may\r\nwork destruction upon us. For you carry on war without\r\nlicence, against whom we may not fight in turn. For you\r\ndesire to live when you have murdered us; but our victory is\r\neither to escape or to be slain.\"</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-469"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ccd53cce3e20da9eb9639054d94d82833bf53c9a9389bbcbf2fc507966d34659","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2CO","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Cor. xi. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_734_734","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. 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