{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>102. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: Judas did not die for us, but\r\nChrist, to whom the Church dispersed throughout the world says,\r\n\"So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth\r\nme: for I trust in Thy word.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_831_831\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_831_831\">[831]</a> When, therefore, I hear the\r\nwords of the Lord, saying, \"Ye shall be witnesses unto me\r\nboth in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and\r\nunto the uttermost part of the earth,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_832_832\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_832_832\">[832]</a> and through the voice\r\nof His prophet, \"Their sound is gone out through all the\r\nearth, and their words into the ends of the world,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_833_833\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_833_833\">[833]</a> no bodily\r\nadmixture of evil ever is able to disturb me, if I know how to\r\nsay, \"Be surety to Thy servant for good: let not the proud\r\noppress me.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_834_834\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_834_834\">[834]</a> I do not, therefore, concern myself about a\r\nvain calumniation when I have a substantial promise. But\r\nif you complain about matters or places appertaining to the\r\nChurch, which you used once to hold, and hold no longer,\r\nthen the Jews also may say that they are righteous, and\r\nreproach us with unrighteousness, because the Christians now\r\noccupy the place in which of old they impiously reigned.<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_317\">[Pg 317]</a></span>\r\nWhat then is there unfitting, if, according to a similar will of\r\nthe Lord, the Catholics now hold the things which formerly\r\nthe heretics used to have? For against all such men as this,\r\nthat is to say, against all impious and unrighteous men, those\r\nwords of the Lord have force, \"The kingdom of God shall be\r\ntaken from you, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth\r\nthe fruits thereof;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_835_835\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_835_835\">[835]</a> or is it written in vain, \"The righteous\r\nshall eat of the labours of the impious?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_836_836\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_836_836\">[836]</a> Wherefore you ought\r\nrather to be amazed that you still possess something, than that\r\nthere is something which you have lost. But neither need you\r\nwonder even at this, for it is by degrees that the whitened\r\nwall falls down. Yet look back at the followers of Maximianus,\r\nsee what places they possessed, and by whose agency and\r\nunder whose attacks they were driven from them, and do you\r\nventure, if you can, to say that to suffer things like these is\r\nrighteousness, while to do them is unrighteousness. In the\r\nfirst place, because you did the deed, and they suffered them;\r\nand secondly, because, according to the rule of this righteousness,\r\nyou are found to be inferior. For they were driven\r\nfrom the ancient places by Catholic emperors acting through\r\njudges, while you are not even driven forth by the mandates\r\nof the emperors themselves from the basilicas of unity. For\r\nwhat reason is this, save that you are of less merit, not only\r\nthan the rest of your colleagues, but even than those very\r\nmen whom you assuredly condemned as guilty of sacrilege by\r\nthe mouth of your general Council?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-531"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"034d10af5efb053bb5b103d4a75137370aaddb50f9990c33759f4a03b77ee0e6","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":105,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cv. 44","verse":44,"verse_end":44}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_836_836","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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