{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xii.</span>—14. Accordingly, I too might use the words of\r\nthe blessed Cyprian to turn the hearts of those that hear me<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_128\">[Pg 128]</a></span>\r\nto the consideration of something truly marvellous, if I were\r\nto say \"that John, who was accounted greater among the\r\nprophets,—he who was filled with divine grace while yet in\r\nhis mother's womb; he who was upheld in the spirit and\r\npower of Elias; who was not the adversary, but a forerunner\r\nand herald of the Lord; who not only foretold our Lord in\r\nwords, but also showed Him to the sight; who baptized Christ\r\nHimself, through whom all others are baptized,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_328_328\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_328_328\">[328]</a>—he was not\r\nworthy to baptize in such wise that those who were baptized\r\nby him should not be baptized again after him; and shall no\r\none think that a man should be baptized in the Church after\r\nhe had been baptized by the covetous, by defrauders, by extortioners,\r\nby usurers? Is not the answer ready to this invidious\r\nquestion, Why do you think this unmeet, as though\r\neither John were dishonoured, or the covetous man honoured?\r\nBut His baptism ought not to be repeated, of whom John\r\nsays, \"The same is He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_329_329\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_329_329\">[329]</a>\r\nFor whoever be the minister by whose hands it is given, it\r\nis His baptism of whom it was said, \"The same is He which\r\nbaptizeth.\" But neither was the baptism of John himself\r\nrepeated, when the Apostle Paul commanded those who had\r\nbeen baptized by him to be baptized in Christ. For what\r\nthey had not received from the friend of the Bridegroom, this\r\nit was right that they should receive from the Bridegroom\r\nHimself, of whom that friend had said, \"The same is He\r\nwhich baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.\"</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIFTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-173"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e8260d7aa4a4e3293f7a8e0105452b1f2d6b2503b47ba6b4e30323c163eade53","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John i. 33","verse":33,"verse_end":33}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_329_329","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_329_329","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_329_329\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_329_329\"><span class=\"label\">[329]</span></a> John i. 33.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_329_329","text_sha256":"79bea1d079a3ac942d6596d9b5015aaf1d82c0d0784e46f096fee2091d126e2f","verified":false,"work_id":null}