{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. ii.</span>—3. Again, if any one not having charity, and\r\nwalking in the abandoned paths of a most wicked life, seems\r\nto be within whilst he really is without, and at the same time\r\ndoes not seek for the repetition of baptism even in the case\r\nof heretics, it in no wise helps his barrenness, because he is\r\nnot rendered fruitful with his own fruit, but laden with that\r\nof others. But it is possible that some one may flourish in\r\nthe root of charity, and may be most rightly minded in the\r\npoint in which Cyprian was otherwise minded, and yet there\r\nmay be more that is fruitful in Cyprian than in him, more\r\nthat requires purging in him than in Cyprian. Not only,\r\ntherefore, do we not compare bad Catholics with the blessed\r\nCyprian, but even good Catholics we do not hastily pronounce\r\nto be on an equality with him whom our pious mother Church\r\ncounts among the few rare men of surpassing excellence and\r\ngrace, although these others may recognise the baptism of\r\nChrist even among heretics, whilst he thought otherwise; so\r\nthat, by the instance of Cyprian, who saw one point less\r\nclearly, and yet remained most firm in the unity of the\r\nChurch, it might be shown more clearly to heretics what a\r\nsacrilegious crime it was to break the bond of peace. For\r\nneither were the blind Pharisees, although they sometimes\r\nenjoined what was right to be done, to be compared to the\r\nApostle Peter, though he at times enjoined what was not\r\nright. But not only is their dryness not to be compared to<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_153\">[Pg 153]</a></span>\r\nhis greenness, but even the fruit of others may not be deemed\r\nequal to his fertility. For no one now compels the Gentiles to\r\nJudaize, and yet no one now in the Church, however great his\r\nprogress in goodness, may be compared with the apostleship\r\nof Peter. Wherefore, while rendering due reverence, and\r\npaying, so far as I can, the fitting honour to the peaceful\r\nbishop and glorious martyr Cyprian, I yet venture to say that\r\nhis view concerning the baptism of schismatics and heretics\r\nwas contrary to that which was afterwards brought to light\r\nby a decision, not of mine, but of the whole Church, confirmed\r\nand strengthened by the authority of a general\r\nCouncil: just as, while paying the reverence he deserves to\r\nPeter, the first of the apostles and most eminent of martyrs,\r\nI yet venture to say that he did not do right in compelling\r\nthe Gentiles to Judaize; for this also I say, not of my own\r\nteaching, but according to the wholesome doctrine of the\r\nApostle Paul, retained and preserved throughout the whole\r\nChurch.<a id=\"FNanchor_396_396\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_396_396\">[396]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-204"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6cc5050e64ce5df1e918cc93d000f4ec25f0f7cdf5bac5b19fb2e10e6812d5a3","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. ii. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_396_396","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_396_396","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_396_396\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_396_396\"><span class=\"label\">[396]</span></a> Gal. ii. 14.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_396_396","text_sha256":"4cc9e9ce223a0e52f4d0f5367438715a244f3cc63f0070df9022220d1f753659","verified":false,"work_id":null}