{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. li.</span>—99. Taking all these things, therefore, into consideration,\r\nI think that I am not rash in saying that there are\r\nsome in the house of God after such a fashion as not to be\r\nthemselves the very house of God, which is said to be built\r\nupon a rock,<a id=\"FNanchor_619_619\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_619_619\">[619]</a> which is called the one dove,<a id=\"FNanchor_620_620\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_620_620\">[620]</a> which is styled\r\nthe beauteous bride without spot or wrinkle,<a id=\"FNanchor_621_621\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_621_621\">[621]</a> and a garden\r\nenclosed, a fountain sealed, a well of living water, an orchard\r\nof pomegranates with pleasant fruits,<a id=\"FNanchor_622_622\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_622_622\">[622]</a> which house also received\r\nthe keys, and the power of binding and loosing.<a id=\"FNanchor_623_623\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_623_623\">[623]</a> If\r\nany one shall neglect this house when it arrests and corrects\r\nhim, the Lord says, \"Let him be unto thee as an heathen man\r\nand a publican.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_624_624\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_624_624\">[624]</a> Of this house it is said, \"Lord, I have\r\nloved the habitation of Thy house, and the place where Thine\r\nhonour dwelleth;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_625_625\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_625_625\">[625]</a> and, \"He maketh men to be of one mind\r\nin an house;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_626_626\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_626_626\">[626]</a> and, \"I was glad when they said unto me,\r\nLet us go into the house of the Lord;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_627_627\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_627_627\">[627]</a> and, \"Blessed are they\r\nthat dwell in Thy house, O Lord; they will be still praising\r\nThee;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_628_628\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_628_628\">[628]</a> with countless other passages to the same effect. This\r\nhouse is also called wheat, bringing forth fruit with patience,\r\nsome thirty-fold, some sixty-fold, and some an hundred-fold.<a id=\"FNanchor_629_629\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_629_629\">[629]</a><span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_224\">[Pg 224]</a></span>\r\nThis house is also in vessels of gold and of silver,<a id=\"FNanchor_630_630\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_630_630\">[630]</a> and in\r\nprecious stones and imperishable woods. To this house it is\r\nsaid, \"Forbearing one another in love, endeavouring to keep\r\nthe unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_631_631\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_631_631\">[631]</a> and, \"For the\r\ntemple of God is holy, which temple ye are.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_632_632\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_632_632\">[632]</a> For this house\r\nis composed of those that are good and faithful, and of the\r\nholy servants of God dispersed throughout the world, and\r\nbound together by the unity of the Spirit, whether they know\r\neach other personally or not. But we hold that others are\r\nsaid to be in the house after such a sort, that they belong\r\nnot to the substance of the house, nor to the society of fruitful\r\nand peaceful justice, but only as the chaff is said to be\r\namong the corn; for that they are in the house we cannot\r\ndeny, when the apostle says, \"But in a great house there are\r\nnot only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of\r\nearth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_633_633\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_633_633\">[633]</a> Of this\r\ncountless multitude are found to be not only the crowd which\r\nwithin the Church afflicts the heart of the saints, who are so\r\nfew in comparison with so vast a host, but also the heresies\r\nand schisms which exist in those who have burst the meshes of\r\nthe net, and may now be said to be rather out of the house\r\nthan in the house, of whom it is said, \"They went out from\r\nus, but they were not of us.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_634_634\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_634_634\">[634]</a> For they are more thoroughly\r\nseparated, now that they are also divided from us in the body,\r\nthan are those who live within the Church in a carnal and\r\nworldly fashion, and are separated from us in the spirit.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SEVENTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-388"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5de41b79d53685f0547c1bd2534b45777820f75756d5d107cc48b18750f553a8","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":16,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xvi. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_623_623","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. 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