{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>76. Lastly, when you wished to prove that the Holy Spirit\r\nwas given by Christ, and had brought forward as a proof from\r\nthe gospel, that Jesus on rising from the dead breathed into\r\nthe face of His disciples, saying, \"Receive ye the Holy\r\nGhost;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_794_794\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_794_794\">[794]</a> and when you wished to prove that that last fire\r\nwhich was named in connection with baptism was found in\r\nthe tongues of fire which were displayed on the coming of the\r\nHoly Ghost, how came it into your head to say, \"And the\r\nComforter Himself came upon the apostles as a fire burning\r\nwith rustling flames,\" as though there were one Holy Spirit\r\nwhom He gave by breathing on the face of His disciples, and\r\nanother who, after His ascension, came on the apostles? Are\r\nwe to suppose, therefore, that there are two Holy Spirits?\r\nWho will be found so utterly mad as to assert this? Christ\r\ntherefore Himself gave the same Holy Spirit, whether by\r\nbreathing on the face of the disciples, or by sending Him\r\ndown from heaven on the day of Pentecost, with undoubted\r\ncommendation of His holy sacrament. Accordingly it was\r\nnot that Christ gave the Holy Spirit, and the Comforter gave\r\nthe fire, that the saying might be fulfilled, \"With the Holy\r\nSpirit, and with fire;\" but the same Christ Himself gave the\r\nHoly Spirit in both cases, making it manifest while He was\r\nyet on earth by His breathing, and when He was ascended\r\ninto heaven by the tongues of flame. For that you may\r\nknow that the words of John, \"He shall baptize you with\r\nthe Holy Ghost,\" were not fulfilled at the time when He<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_300\">[Pg 300]</a></span>\r\nbreathed on His disciples' face, so that they should require to\r\nbe baptized, when the Comforter should come, not with the\r\nSpirit any longer, but with fire, I would have you remember\r\nthe most outspoken words of Scripture, and see what the Lord\r\nHimself said to them when He ascended into heaven: \"John\r\ntruly baptized you with water; but ye shall be baptized with\r\nthe Holy Ghost, whom ye shall receive not many days hence\r\nat Pentecost.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_795_795\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_795_795\">[795]</a> What could be plainer than this testimony?\r\nBut, according to your interpretation, what He should have\r\nsaid was this: John verily baptized you with water; but ye\r\nwere baptized with the Holy Spirit when I breathed on your\r\nfaces; and next in due order shall ye be baptized with fire,\r\nwhich ye shall receive not many days hence;—in order that\r\nby this means the three stages should be completed, in which\r\nyou say that the one baptism was consecrated. And so it\r\nproves to be the case that you are still ignorant of the meaning\r\nof the words, \"He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost,\r\nand with fire;\" and you are rash enough to be willing to teach\r\nwhat you do not know yourselves.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-505"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cc557c6f291e3bd692b089095270e46927fcaa1a247591d07400da506aa17940","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xx. 22","verse":22,"verse_end":22}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_794_794","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_794_794","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_794_794\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_794_794\"><span class=\"label\">[794]</span></a> John xx. 22.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_794_794","text_sha256":"9b927a06c0ac2d8a49ca50151c82cffd7db41ffa674345c85c66c35f99fa661b","verified":false,"work_id":null}