{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XXI.</span>—23. Lastly, it has been said, as he himself has\r\nalso quoted, \"Ye shall know them by their fruits:\"<a id=\"FNanchor_672_672\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_672_672\">[672]</a> let us\r\ntherefore examine into their fruits. You bring up against our\r\npredecessors their delivery of the sacred books. This very\r\ncharge we urge with greater probability against their accusers\r\nthemselves. And not to carry our search too far, in the same\r\ncity of Constantina your predecessors ordained Silvanus bishop\r\nat the very outset of his schism. He, while he was still a sub-deacon,\r\nwas most unmistakeably entered as a <i>traditor</i> in the\r\narchives of the city. If you on your side bring forward documents\r\nagainst our predecessors, all that we ask is equal terms,—that\r\nwe should either believe both to be true or both to be\r\nfalse. If both are true, you are unquestionably guilty of\r\nschism, who have pretended that you avoid offences in the\r\ncommunion of the whole world, which you had commonly\r\namong you in the small fragment of your own sect. But\r\nagain, if both are false, you are unquestionably guilty of\r\nschism, who, on account of the false charges of giving up the\r\nsacred books, are staining yourselves with the heinous offence\r\nof severance from the Church. But if we have something to\r\nurge in accusation while you have nothing, or if our charges\r\nare true whilst yours are false, it is no longer matter of discussion\r\nhow thoroughly your mouths are closed.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-419"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9f387da42593345402da2ba3b7c63af4896ce466a51a1a6abda7f9556dae9f71","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vii. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_672_672","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_672_672","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_672_672\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_672_672\"><span class=\"label\">[672]</span></a> Matt. vii. 16.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_672_672","text_sha256":"f2a3d9839b1321ce8d330782f94d2d8d4d5dc5e6e99cd10b6f3fbd6e54ec1d24","verified":false,"work_id":null}