{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>28. He sought assistance, therefore, from the Christian\r\nemperor, not so much with any desire of revenging himself,\r\nas with the view of defending the Church entrusted to his\r\ncharge. And if he had omitted to do this, he would have\r\ndeserved not to be praised for his forbearance, but to be\r\nblamed for negligence. For neither was the Apostle Paul\r\ntaking precautions on behalf of his own transitory life, but\r\nfor the Church of God, when he caused the plot of those who\r\nhad conspired to slay him to be made known to the Roman\r\ncaptain, the effect of which was, that he was conducted by\r\nan escort of armed soldiers to the place where they proposed\r\nto send him, that he might escape the ambush of his foes.<a id=\"FNanchor_1228_1228\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1228_1228\">[1228]</a>\r\nNor did he for a moment hesitate to invoke the protection of\r\nthe Roman laws, proclaiming that he was a Roman citizen,\r\nwho at that time could not be scourged;<a id=\"FNanchor_1229_1229\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1229_1229\">[1229]</a> and again, that he\r\nmight not be delivered to the Jews who sought to kill him,\r\nhe appealed to Cæsar,<a id=\"FNanchor_1230_1230\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1230_1230\">[1230]</a>—a Roman emperor, indeed, but not a\r\nChristian. And by this he showed sufficiently plainly what\r\nwas afterwards to be the duty of the ministers of Christ, when\r\nin the midst of the dangers of the Church they found the\r\nemperors Christians. And hence, therefore, it came about\r\nthat a religious and pious emperor, when such matters were\r\nbrought to his knowledge, thought it well, by the enactment\r\nof most pious laws, entirely to correct the error of this great\r\nimpiety, and to bring those who bore the standards of Christ<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_504\">[Pg 504]</a></span>\r\nagainst the cause of Christ into the unity of the Catholic\r\nChurch, even by terror and compulsion, rather than merely to\r\ntake away their power of doing violence, and to leave them\r\nthe freedom of going astray, and perishing in their error.</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-782"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d6871717d384f31c2da7a97c2a8e57ecfb3830e4a625771e5c882d45f3311ff8","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ACT","chapter":25,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Acts xxv. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1230_1230","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_1230_1230","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1230_1230\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1230_1230\"><span class=\"label\">[1230]</span></a> Acts xxv. 11.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1230_1230","text_sha256":"6d1bc7d04d09ac338ea554c4f0e45be0268c89b22c3e3a38bcfcc391a4dc5550","verified":false,"work_id":null}