{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XXIII.</span>—25. In conclusion, the Testament is said to\r\nhave been given to the flames by certain men in the time of\r\npersecution. Now let its lessons be read, from whatever\r\nsource it has been brought to light. Certainly in the beginning\r\nof the promises of the Testator this is found to have\r\nbeen said to Abraham: \"In thy seed shall all the nations of\r\nthe earth be blessed;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_675_675\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_675_675\">[675]</a> and this saying is truthfully interpreted\r\nby the apostle: \"To thy seed,\" he says, \"which is\r\nChrist.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_676_676\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_676_676\">[676]</a> No betrayal on the part of any man has made the\r\npromises of God of none effect. Hold communion with all\r\nthe nations of the earth, and then you may boast that you\r\nhave preserved the Testament from the destruction of the\r\nflames. But if you will not do so, which party is the rather\r\nto be believed to have insisted on the burning of the Testament,\r\nsave that which will not assent to its teaching when it<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_250\">[Pg 250]</a></span>\r\nis brought to light? For how much more certainly, without\r\nany sacrilegious rashness, can he be held to have joined the\r\ncompany of <i>traditors</i> who now persecutes with his tongue the\r\nTestament which they are said to have persecuted with the\r\nflames! You charge us with the persecution: the true wheat\r\nof the Lord answers you, \"Either it was done justly, or it was\r\ndone by the chaff that was among us.\" What have you to\r\nsay to this? You object that we have no baptism: the same\r\ntrue wheat of the Lord answers you, that the form of the\r\nsacrament even within the Church fails to profit some, as it\r\ndid no good to Simon Magus when he was baptized, much\r\nmore it fails to profit those who are without. Yet that baptism\r\nremains in them when they depart, is proved from this, that it\r\nis not restored to them when they return. Never, therefore,\r\nexcept by the greatest shamelessness, will you be able to cry\r\nout against that wheat, or to call them false prophets clad in\r\nsheep's clothing, whilst inwardly they are ravening wolves;\r\nsince either they do not know the wicked in the unity of the\r\nCatholic Church, or for the sake of unity bear with those\r\nwhom they know.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-421"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7c01bf056b93cc65232eb525defc7e73ee858e6b25dfc12c5005c7efcb57487c","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":22,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xxii. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_675_675","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_675_675","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_675_675\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_675_675\"><span class=\"label\">[675]</span></a> Gen. xxii. 18.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_675_675","text_sha256":"ed7b8ff348933387eff45642c127399e2a5a5b12059bac3f1d762ee2157cf4b3","verified":false,"work_id":null}