{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>24. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: I might indeed say that Satan\r\nhimself was worse than all wicked men; and yet the apostle\r\ndelivered a man over to him for the destruction of the flesh,\r\nthat his spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.<a id=\"FNanchor_711_711\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_711_711\">[711]</a>\r\nAnd in the same way he delivered over others, of whom he\r\nsays, \"Whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may\r\nlearn not to blaspheme.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_712_712\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_712_712\">[712]</a> And the Lord Christ drove out the\r\nimpious merchants from the temple with scourges; in which\r\nconnection we also find advanced the testimony of Scripture,\r\nwhere it says, \"The zeal of Thine house hath eaten me up.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_713_713\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_713_713\">[713]</a>\r\nSo that we do find the apostle delivering over to condemnation,\r\nand Christ a persecutor. All this I might say, and put\r\nyou into no small heat and perturbation, so that you would\r\nbe compelled to inquire, not into the complaints of those who\r\nsuffer, but into the intention of those who cause the suffering.\r\nBut do not trouble yourself about this; I do not say this. But\r\nI do say that it has nothing to do with the seed of Abraham,\r\nwhich is in all nations, if anything has been done to you\r\nwhich ought not to have been done, perhaps by the chaff among\r\nthe harvest of the Lord, which in spite of this is found among\r\nall nations. Do you therefore render an account of your separation.\r\nBut first, consider what kind of men you have among\r\nyou, with whom you would not wish to be reproached; and see\r\nhow unjustly you act, when you cast in our teeth the acts of\r\nother men, even if you proved what you assert. Therefore it\r\nwill be found that there is no ground for your separation.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-453"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"97d65c4b795155635f5a3311f78615e7f7e86e036765883decf3e2d88af69eff","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John ii. 15-17","verse":15,"verse_end":17}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_713_713","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_713_713","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_713_713\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_713_713\"><span class=\"label\">[713]</span></a> John ii. 15-17.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_713_713","text_sha256":"c9e3261ea3e14de5739844774200ae1b8c29ad869e383ba8b6c3950f5790d83d","verified":false,"work_id":null}