{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>42. But in this world no one is righteous by his own\r\nrighteousness,—that is, as though it were wrought by himself\r\nand for himself; but as the apostle says, \"According as God\r\nhath dealt to every man the measure of faith.\" But then he\r\ngoes on to add the following: \"For as we have many members\r\nin one body, and all members have not the same office; so we,\r\nbeing many, are one body in Christ.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1254_1254\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1254_1254\">[1254]</a> And according to this\r\ndoctrine, no one can be righteous so long as he is separated\r\nfrom the unity of this body. For in the same manner as if a\r\nlimb be cut off from the body of a living man, it cannot any\r\nlonger retain the spirit of life; so the man who is cut off from\r\nthe body of Christ, who is righteous, can in no wise retain the\r\nspirit of righteousness, even if he retain the form of membership\r\nwhich he received when in the body. Let them therefore\r\ncome into the framework of this body, and so possess\r\ntheir own labours, not through the lust of lordship, but through<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_513\">[Pg 513]</a></span>\r\nthe godliness of using them aright. But we, as has been\r\nsaid before, cleanse our wills from the pollution of this concupiscence,\r\neven in the judgment of any enemy you please\r\nto name as judge, seeing that we use our utmost efforts in entreating\r\nthe very men of whose labours we avail ourselves to\r\nenjoy with us, within the society of the Catholic Church, the\r\nfruits both of their labours and of our own.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","A TREATISE CONCERNING THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS; FORMING EPISTLE 185 IN MIGNE'S EDITION OF AUGUSTINE'S WORKS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-796"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c757acdc11e78119497fd38c0e460c6e8e7cc8a56e25d42c5650745cd7a630a9","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. xii. 3-5","verse":3,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1254_1254","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_1254_1254","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1254_1254\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1254_1254\"><span class=\"label\">[1254]</span></a> Rom. xii. 3-5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1254_1254","text_sha256":"7cea30e2cc6908c4ed829ae1b0ca509d38296517e5c1e690d54dd376a5e06925","verified":false,"work_id":null}