{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xlviii.</span>—58. When we ask, therefore, by what means\r\nthe man is to be cleansed whom you do not baptize again in<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_461\">[Pg 461]</a></span>\r\nyour communion, even when it has been made clear that he\r\nhas been baptized by some one who, on account of some concealed\r\niniquity, did not at the time possess the conscience of\r\none that gives in holiness, what answer do you intend to make,\r\nexcept that he is cleansed by Christ or by God, although,\r\nindeed, Christ is Himself God over all, blessed for ever,<a id=\"FNanchor_1128_1128\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1128_1128\">[1128]</a> or\r\nby the Holy Spirit, since He too is Himself God, because this\r\nTrinity of Persons is one God? Whence Peter, after saying\r\nto a man, \"Thou hast dared to lie to the Holy Ghost,\" immediately\r\nwent on to add what was the nature of the Holy Ghost,\r\nsaying, \"Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1129_1129\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1129_1129\">[1129]</a> Lastly,\r\neven if you were to say that he was cleansed and purified by\r\nan angel when he is unacquainted with the pollution in the\r\nconscience of him that gives but not in holiness, take notice\r\nthat it is said of the saints, when they shall have risen to\r\neternal life, that they shall then be equal to the angels of\r\nGod.<a id=\"FNanchor_1130_1130\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1130_1130\">[1130]</a> Any one, therefore, that is cleansed even by an angel\r\nis cleansed with greater holiness than if he were cleansed by\r\nany kind of conscience of man. Why then are you unwilling\r\nthat it should be said to you, If cleansing is wrought by the\r\nhands of a man when he is genuinely and manifestly good;\r\nbut when the man is evil, but undetected in his wickedness,\r\nthen since he has not the conscience of one that gives in\r\nholiness, it is no longer he, but God, or an angel, that cleanses;\r\ntherefore they who are baptized by undetected evil men are\r\njustified with greater holiness than those who are baptized by\r\nmen that are genuinely and manifestly good? And if this\r\nopinion is displeasing to you, as in reality it ought to be displeasing\r\nto every one, then take away the source from which\r\nit springs, correct the premiss to which it is indissolubly\r\nbound; for if these do not precede as hypotheses, the other\r\nwill not follow as a consequence.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-737"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"20857b175a59417b8589de2aa8cc182114dfb75d64849581d367f9605c55a531","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":22,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxii. 30","verse":30,"verse_end":30}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1130_1130","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_1130_1130","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1130_1130\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1130_1130\"><span class=\"label\">[1130]</span></a> Matt. xxii. 30.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1130_1130","text_sha256":"c398ac9d24ad2b0296c82287808a1615d9d3b164b3a73946f22efb72b6186028","verified":false,"work_id":null}