{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>19. You yourself, when speaking of the foretelling of the\r\ncondemnation of Judas, used these expressions: \"See how\r\nmighty is the spirit of the prophets, that it was able to see\r\nall future things as though they were present, so that a traitor\r\nwho was to be born hereafter should be condemned many centuries\r\nbefore;\" and yet you did not see that in the same sure\r\nprophecy, and certain and unshaken truth, in which it was\r\nforetold that one of the disciples should hereafter betray the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_263\">[Pg 263]</a></span>\r\nChrist, it was also foretold that the whole world should hereafter\r\nbelieve in Christ. Why did you pay attention in the\r\nprophecy to the man who betrayed Christ, and in the same\r\nplace give no heed to the world for which Christ was betrayed?\r\nWho betrayed Christ? Judas. To whom did he\r\nbetray Him? To the Jews. What did the Jews do to Him?\r\n\"They pierced my hands and my feet,\" says the Psalmist.\r\n\"I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They\r\npart my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_703_703\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_703_703\">[703]</a>\r\nOf what importance, then, that is which is bought\r\nat such a price, I would have you read a little later in the\r\npsalm itself: \"All the ends of the world shall remember and\r\nturn unto the Lord; and all the kindreds of the nations shall\r\nworship before Thee. For the kingdom is the Lord's; and He\r\nis the governor among the nations.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_704_704\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_704_704\">[704]</a> But who is able to\r\nsuffice for the quotation of all the other innumerable prophetic\r\npassages which bear witness to the world that is destined\r\nto believe? Yet you quote a prophecy because you\r\nsee in it the man who sold Christ: you do not see in it the\r\npossession which Christ bought by being sold. Here is the\r\nsecond absurdity: behold again the third.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-448"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1b42eaeed79f0d1bd9d002c2a2c2d68ba32191afdcb200dace95d75096997ae1","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":22,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xxii. 27","verse":27,"verse_end":27}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_704_704","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_704_704","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_704_704\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_704_704\"><span class=\"label\">[704]</span></a> Ps. xxii. 27, 28.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_704_704","text_sha256":"43a83910b3af70a75a4e2b180575cc865c664398d8e211da7f627c9fdebe5e94","verified":false,"work_id":null}