{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XVII.</span>—26. Therefore, whether they seem to abide\r\nwithin, or are openly outside, whatsoever is flesh is flesh, and\r\nwhat is chaff is chad, whether they persevere in remaining in\r\ntheir barrenness on the threshing-floor, or, when temptation\r\nbefalls them, are carried out as it were by the blast of some\r\nwind. And even that man is always severed from the unity\r\nof the Church which is without a spot or wrinkle,<a id=\"FNanchor_49_49\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_49_49\">[49]</a> who associates\r\nwith the congregation of the saints in carnal obstinacy.\r\nYet we ought to despair of no man, whether he be one who\r\nshows himself to be of this nature within the pale of the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_27\">[Pg 27]</a></span>\r\nChurch, or whether he more openly opposes it from without.\r\nBut the spiritual, or those who are steadily advancing with\r\npious exertion towards this end, do not stray without the\r\npale; since even when, by some perversity or necessity among\r\nmen, they seem to be driven forth, they are more approved\r\nthan if they had remained within, since they are in no degree\r\nroused to contend against the Church, but remain rooted in\r\nthe strongest foundation of Christian charity on the solid\r\nrock of unity. For hereunto belongs what is said in the\r\nsacrifice of Abraham: \"But the birds divided he not.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_50_50\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_50_50\">[50]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-70"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b4cc2a5bd1e1934202c4b17c99a10c7cfc0652cc24d7248f7fbf41a0908ece3e","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":15,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xv. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_50_50","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_50_50","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_50_50\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_50_50\"><span class=\"label\">[50]</span></a> Gen. xv. 10.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_50_50","text_sha256":"f74a6080d54cec25b0429b492978116b21d81c8378f0625280b3e16e612b89be","verified":false,"work_id":null}