{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xix.</span>—22. For perhaps some one of you will say to me,\r\nAll these things which he said against you he wished to have\r\nforce for this purpose, that he might take away your character,\r\nand through you the character of those with whom you hold\r\ncommunion, that neither they themselves, nor those whom you\r\nendeavour to bring over to your communion, may hold you to\r\nbe of any further importance. But, in deciding whether he\r\nhas given no answer to the words of your epistle, we must\r\nlook at them in the light of the passage in which he proposed\r\nthem for consideration. Let us then do so: let us look at\r\nhis writings in the light of that very passage. Passing over,\r\ntherefore, the passage in which I sought to introduce my\r\nsubject to the reader, and to ignore those few prefatory words\r\nof his, which were rather insulting than relevant to the subject\r\nunder discussion, I go on to say, \"He says, 'What we\r\nlook for is the conscience of the giver, to cleanse that of the\r\nrecipient.' But supposing the conscience of the giver is concealed\r\nfrom view, and perhaps defiled with sin, how will it\r\nbe able to cleanse the conscience of the recipient, if, as he\r\nsays, 'what we look for is the conscience of the giver, to\r\ncleanse that of the recipient?' For if he should say that it\r\nmakes no matter to the recipient what amount of evil may\r\nbe concealed from view in the conscience of the giver, perhaps\r\nthat ignorance may have such a degree of efficacy as this, that\r\na man cannot be defiled by the guilt of the conscience of him\r\nfrom whom he receives baptism, so long as he is unaware of\r\nit. Let it then be granted that the guilty conscience of his\r\nneighbour cannot defile a man so long as he is unaware of it;\r\nbut is it therefore clear that it can further cleanse him from\r\nhis own guilt? Whence then is a man to be cleansed who\r\nreceives baptism, when the conscience of the giver is polluted\r\nwithout the knowledge of him who is to receive it, especially\r\nwhen he goes on to say, 'For he who receives faith from the\r\nfaithless receives not faith but guilt?'\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1083_1083\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1083_1083\">[1083]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-699"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1574db611ce6a41f22399aa0a4484e7ef5847c502a3260105470894d58ea1aea","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1083_1083","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_1083_1083","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1083_1083\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1083_1083\"><span class=\"label\">[1083]</span></a> See Book <span class=\"smcap\">I.</span> c. i. secs. 2, 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1083_1083","text_sha256":"e3e88fea3989f0032fd0a5ed1219585478af34f0a5032a362745b4386f56eff6","verified":false,"work_id":null}