{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. IX.</span>—12. Let them see how many things, and what\r\nimportant things, are of no avail, if a certain single thing be\r\nwanting, and let them see what that one thing is. And\r\nherein let them hear not my words, but those of the apostle:\r\n\"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,\r\nand have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a\r\ntinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and\r\nunderstand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I\r\nhave all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not\r\ncharity, I am nothing.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_22_22\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_22_22\">[22]</a> What does it profit them, therefore,\r\nif they have both the voice of angels in the sacred mysteries,\r\nand the gift of prophecy, as had Caiaphas<a id=\"FNanchor_23_23\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_23_23\">[23]</a> and Saul,<a id=\"FNanchor_24_24\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_24_24\">[24]</a> that so\r\nthey may be found prophesying, of whom Holy Scripture testifies\r\nthat they were worthy of condemnation? If they not\r\nonly know, but even possess the sacraments, as Simon Magus\r\ndid;<a id=\"FNanchor_25_25\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_25_25\">[25]</a> if they have faith, as the devils confessed Christ (for\r\nwe must not suppose that they did not believe when they<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_15\">[Pg 15]</a></span>\r\nsaid, \"What have we to do with Thee? I know Thee who\r\nThou art, the Holy One of God\"<a id=\"FNanchor_26_26\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_26_26\">[26]</a>); if they distribute of themselves\r\ntheir own substance to the poor, as many do, not only\r\nin the Catholic Church, but in the different heretical bodies;\r\nif, under the pressure of any persecution, they give their\r\nbodies with us to be burned for the faith which they like us\r\nconfess: yet because they do all these things apart from the\r\nChurch, not \"forbearing one another in love,\" nor \"endeavouring\r\nto keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_27_27\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_27_27\">[27]</a>\r\ninsomuch as they have not charity, they cannot attain to\r\neternal salvation, even with all those good things which profit\r\nthem not.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-56"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4caf2d8a65861a54c081ffeaf130765f07ea647591b9fd9a12474abc499c1969","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_24_24","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_24_24","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_24_24\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_24_24\"><span class=\"label\">[24]</span></a> 1 Sam. xviii. 10.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_24_24","text_sha256":"e0188d999230d8821e82457d75a398cd17e3d170f900bd62efee78bb834859e6","verified":false,"work_id":null}