{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>221. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: O most ingenious dilemma, or\r\nrather most foolish verbosity! Is it not usual for the choice\r\nof two alternatives to be offered to an antagonist, when it is\r\nimpossible that he should adopt both? For if you should\r\noffer me the choice of the two propositions, that I should\r\nsay either that we were innocent, or that we were guilty; or,\r\nagain, of the other pair of propositions, viz. those concerning\r\nyou, I could not escape choosing either one or the other. But\r\nas it is, you offer me the choice of these two, whether we\r\nare innocent or you are guilty, and wish me to say which of\r\nthese two I choose for my reply. But I refuse to make a\r\nchoice; for I assert them both, that we are innocent, and that\r\nyou are guilty. I say that we are innocent of the false and\r\ncalumnious accusations which you bring against us, so far as\r\nany of us, being in the Catholic Church, can say with a safe\r\nconscience that we have neither given up the sacred books, nor\r\ntaken part in the worship of idols, nor murdered any man,\r\nnor been guilty of any of the other crimes which you allege\r\nagainst us; and that any who may have committed any such\r\noffences, which, however, you have not proved in any case,\r\nhave thereby shut the doors of the kingdom of heaven, not\r\nagainst us, but against themselves; \"for every man shall\r\nbear his own burden.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_973_973\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_973_973\">[973]</a> Here you have your answer on the\r\nfirst head. And I further say that you are all guilty and\r\naccursed,—not some of you owing to the sins of others, which\r\nare wrought among you by certain of your number, and are\r\ncensured by certain others, but all of you by the sin of schism;\r\nfrom which most heinous sacrilege no one of you can say that\r\nhe is free, so long as he refuses to hold communion with the\r\nunity of all nations, unless, indeed, he be compelled to say\r\nthat Christ has told a lie concerning the Church which is\r\nspread abroad among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.<a id=\"FNanchor_974_974\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_974_974\">[974]</a>\r\nAnd so you have my second answer. See how I have made\r\nyou two replies, of which you were desirous that we should be\r\nreduced to choose the one. At any rate, you should have\r\ntaken notice that both assertions might be made by us;<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_383\">[Pg 383]</a></span>\r\nand certainly, if this was what you wished, you should\r\nhave asked it as a favour of us that we should choose one\r\nor the other, when you saw that it was in our power to\r\nchoose both.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-650"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7ced5695a8ccfcd47f0dc7da2002a9904e0b2389e1b1783e6c2bc3bbbf81790c","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. vi. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_973_973","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_973_973","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_973_973\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_973_973\"><span class=\"label\">[973]</span></a> Gal. vi. 5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_973_973","text_sha256":"97dc3927d1b59e7749709a3ade32de4012f102ed5033d6e66ed049c0f0396075","verified":false,"work_id":null}