{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>209. By this time all men who are in any degree acquainted\r\nwith the meaning of words must understand, it seems to me,\r\nhow ridiculous it is that, when you had said, \"Macarius\r\nperished, Ursacius perished, and all your counts perished in\r\nlike manner, by the vengeance of God,\" as though men were<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_376\">[Pg 376]</a></span>\r\ncalling upon you to prove the fact, whereas, in reality, neither\r\nhearer nor reader was calling on you for anything further\r\nwhatsoever, you immediately strung together a long argument\r\nin order to prove that all our counts perished in like manner\r\nby the vengeance of God. \"For Ursacius,\" you say, \"was\r\nslain in a battle with the barbarians, after which birds of prey\r\nwith their savage talons, and the greedy teeth of dogs with\r\ntheir biting, tore him limb from limb.\" In the same way, any\r\none else, who was similarly ignorant of the meaning of what he\r\nsays, might assert that all your bishops perished in prison by\r\nthe vengeance of God; and when asked how he could prove\r\nthis fact, he might at once add, For Optatus, having been\r\naccused of belonging to the company of Gildo, was put to death\r\nin a similar way. Frivolous charges such as these we are\r\ncompelled to listen to, to consider, to refute; only we are apprehensive\r\nfor the weak, lest, from the greater slowness of their\r\nintellect, they should fall speedily into your toils. But Ursacius,\r\nof whom you speak, if it be the case that he lived a good life,\r\nand really died as you assert, will receive consolation from the\r\npromise of God, who says, \"Surely your blood of your lives\r\nwill I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_965_965\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_965_965\">[965]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-638"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"277a42b0f5d3b12c740e02e39db47af588559f27c105f90e981ba1f5fdbe1f5e","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. ix. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_965_965","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_965_965","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_965_965\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_965_965\"><span class=\"label\">[965]</span></a> Gen. ix. 5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_965_965","text_sha256":"a8c1312f5e8f10b82bcc6e84ac7f461cef07a573511d6edbe0b678adf3159b58","verified":false,"work_id":null}