{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>16. But how false the statement is which you make, that\r\n\"both are wanting in the life of baptism, both he who never\r\nhad it at all, and he who had it and has lost it,\" you may see\r\nfrom this, that in the case of those who apostatize after having\r\nbeen baptized, and who return through penitence, baptism is\r\nnot restored to them, as it would be restored if it were lost.\r\nIn what manner, indeed, do your dead men baptize according\r\nto your interpretation? Must we not reckon the drunken\r\namong the dead (to say nothing of the rest, and to mention\r\nonly what is well known and of daily experience among all),\r\nseeing that the apostle says of the widow, \"But she that liveth\r\nin pleasure is dead while she liveth?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_698_698\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_698_698\">[698]</a> In the next place, in\r\nthat Council of yours, in which you condemned Maximianus\r\nwith his advisers or his ministers, have you forgotten with\r\nwhat eloquence you said, \"Even after the manner of the\r\nEgyptians, the shores are full of the bodies of the dying, on\r\nwhom the weightier punishment falls in death itself, in that,\r\nafter their life has been wrung from them by the avenging\r\nwaters, they have not found so much as burial?\" And yet\r\nyou yourselves may see whether or no one of them, Felicianus,\r\nhas been brought to life again; yet he has with him within\r\nthe communion of your body those whom he baptized outside.\r\nAs therefore he is baptized by One that is alive who\r\nis clothed with the baptism of the living Christ, so he is baptized\r\nby the dead who is wrapped in the baptism of the dead\r\nSaturn, or any one like him; that we may set forth in the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_261\">[Pg 261]</a></span>\r\nmeanwhile, with what brevity we may, in what sense the\r\nwords which you have quoted may be understood without any\r\ncavilling on the part of any one of us. For, in the sense in\r\nwhich they are received by you, you make no effort to explain\r\nthem, but only strive to entangle us together with yourselves.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-445"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7106407e3b93783b3b8cd3f1035dc94fe7deea2451c6370ef9def61ed7ba3b19","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1TI","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Tim. v. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_698_698","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_698_698","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_698_698\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_698_698\"><span class=\"label\">[698]</span></a> 1 Tim. v. 6.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_698_698","text_sha256":"bb24ab9fbf9d23f100f6b9de11ce6ae068c007ccc084a71f410d764d0343d516","verified":false,"work_id":null}