{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>84. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: As a matter of fact, not only\r\ndo you not prove us to be <i>traditors</i>, but neither did your\r\nfathers prove that our fathers were guilty of that sin; though,\r\neven if that had been proved, the consequence would have\r\nbeen that they would not be our fathers, according to your\r\nearlier assertion, seeing that we had not followed their deeds:\r\nyet neither should we on their account be severed from the\r\ncompanionship of unity, and from the seed of Abraham, in<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_305\">[Pg 305]</a></span>\r\nwhich all nations of the earth are blessed.<a id=\"FNanchor_801_801\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_801_801\">[801]</a> However, if the\r\nwater of Christ be one thing, and the water of the <i>traditor</i>\r\nanother, because Christ was not a <i>traditor</i>, why should not\r\nthe water of Christ be one thing, and the water of a robber\r\nanother, since certainly Christ was not a robber? Do you\r\ntherefore baptize again after baptism by your robber, and I\r\nwill baptize again after the <i>traditor</i>, who is neither mine nor\r\nyours; or, if one must believe the documents which are produced,\r\nwho is both mine and yours; or, if we are to believe\r\nthe communion of the whole world rather than the party of\r\nDonatus, who is not mine, but yours. But, by a better and a\r\nsounder judgment, because it is according to the words of the\r\napostle, every one of us shall bear his own burden;<a id=\"FNanchor_802_802\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_802_802\">[802]</a> nor is\r\neither that robber yours, if you are not yourselves robbers;\r\nnor does any <i>traditor</i> belong to any one either of us or you,\r\nwho is not himself a <i>traditor</i>. And yet we are Catholics,\r\nwho, following the spirit of that judgment, do not desert the\r\nunity of the Church; but you are heretics, who, on account\r\nof charges, whether true or false, which you have brought\r\nagainst certain men, are unwilling to maintain Christian\r\ncharity with the seed of Abraham.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-513"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7c01bf056b93cc65232eb525defc7e73ee858e6b25dfc12c5005c7efcb57487c","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":22,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xxii. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_801_801","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_801_801","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_801_801\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_801_801\"><span class=\"label\">[801]</span></a> Gen. xxii. 18.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_801_801","text_sha256":"ed7b8ff348933387eff45642c127399e2a5a5b12059bac3f1d762ee2157cf4b3","verified":false,"work_id":null}