{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>21. Therefore the heretic is not \"the first to seize baptism,\"\r\nsince he has received it from the Church. Nor, though\r\nhe seceded, could baptism have been lost by him whom we\r\nassert no longer to retain the Church, and yet allow to retain\r\nbaptism. Nor does any one \"yield his birthright, and give\r\nit to a heretic,\" because he says that he took away with\r\nhim what he could not give lawfully, but what would yet be\r\naccording to law when given; or that he no longer has lawfully\r\nwhat yet is in accordance with law in his possession.\r\nBut the birthright rests only in a holy conversation and good\r\nlife, to which all belong of whom that bride consists as her\r\nmembers which has no spot or wrinkle,<a id=\"FNanchor_341_341\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_341_341\">[341]</a> or that dove that\r\ngroans amid the wickedness of the many crows,—unless it be\r\nthat, while Esau lost his birthright from his lust after a mess\r\nof pottage,<a id=\"FNanchor_342_342\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_342_342\">[342]</a> we are yet to hold that it is retained by defrauders,\r\nrobbers, usurers, envious persons, drunkards, and the like, over\r\nwhose existence in the Church of his time Cyprian groaned in\r\nhis epistles. Wherefore, either it is not the same thing to\r\nretain the Church and to retain the birthright in divine\r\nthings, or, if every one who retains the Church also retains\r\nthe birthright, then all those wicked ones do not retain the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_133\">[Pg 133]</a></span>\r\nChurch who yet both seem and are allowed by every one of\r\nus to give baptism within the Church; for no one, save the\r\nman who is wholly ignorant of sacred things, would say that\r\nthey retain the birthright in sacred things.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-181"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"44e9baa26924d7138815d2c255718596f99e90872c88545eed1b999bead55468","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":25,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xxv. 29-34","verse":29,"verse_end":34}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_342_342","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_342_342","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_342_342\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_342_342\"><span class=\"label\">[342]</span></a> Gen. xxv. 29-34.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_342_342","text_sha256":"6315422356795bf8a951b8c454f7a14380925bcd4db5aabe98f49a1baa5edaf0","verified":false,"work_id":null}