{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>174. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: How often must I tell you the\r\nsame thing? If you do not prove these charges, they tell\r\nagainst no one in the world; and if you prove them, they\r\nhave no bearing upon us; just as those things have no bearing\r\nupon you which are daily done by the furious deeds of\r\nthe insane, by the luxury of the drunken, by the blindness of\r\nthe suicides, by the tyranny of robbers. For who can fail to\r\nsee that what I say is true? But now if charity were in you,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_347\">[Pg 347]</a></span>\r\nit would rejoice in the truth. For how neatly it is said under\r\ncovering of the sheep's clothing, \"Charity beareth all things,\r\nendureth all things!\" but when you come to the test, the\r\nwolf's teeth cannot be concealed. For when, in obedience to\r\nthe words of Scripture, \"forbearing one another in love, endeavouring\r\nto keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of\r\npeace,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_898_898\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_898_898\">[898]</a> charity would compel you, even if you knew of any\r\nevils within the Church, I do not say to consent to them, but\r\nyet to tolerate them if you could not prevent them, lest, on\r\naccount of the wicked who are to be separated by the winnowing-fan\r\nat the last day, you should at the present time sever\r\nthe bond of peace by breaking off from the society of good\r\nmen, you, resisting her influence, and being cast out by the\r\nwind of levity, charge the wheat with being chaff, and declare\r\nthat what you invent of the wicked holds good through the\r\nforce of contagion even in the righteous. And when the\r\nLord has said, \"The field is the world, the harvest is the end\r\nof the world,\" though He said of the wheat and of the tares,\r\n\"Let both grow together until the harvest,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_899_899\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_899_899\">[899]</a> you endeavour\r\nby your words to bring about a belief that the wheat has\r\nperished throughout the main portion of the field, and only\r\ncontinued to exist in your little corner,—being desirous that\r\nChrist should be proved a liar, but you the man of truth.\r\nAnd you speak, indeed, against your own conscience; for no\r\none who in any way looks truly at the gospel will venture in\r\nhis heart to say that in all the many nations throughout\r\nwhich is heard the response of Amen, and among whom\r\nAlleluia is sung almost with one single voice, no Christians\r\nare to be found. And yet, that it may not appear that the\r\nparty of Donatus, which does not communicate with the\r\nseveral nations of the world, is involved in error, if any\r\nangel from heaven, who could see the whole world, were to\r\ndeclare that outside your communion good and innocent men\r\nwere nowhere to be found, there is little doubt that you would\r\nrejoice over the iniquity of the human race, and boast of\r\nhaving told the truth before you had received assurance of it.\r\nHow then is there in you that charity which rejoices not in\r\niniquity? But be not deceived. Throughout the field, that is,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_348\">[Pg 348]</a></span>\r\nthroughout the world, there will be found the wheat of the\r\nLord growing till the end of the world. Christ has said\r\nthis: Christ is truth. Let charity be in you, and let it rejoice\r\nin the truth. Though an angel from heaven preach\r\nunto you another gospel contrary to His gospel, let him be\r\naccursed.<a id=\"FNanchor_900_900\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_900_900\">[900]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-603"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f688cce9cbebd1e00caf0681be13a86dc19c5054c8d0e42f091190dfedb1a88c","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. iv. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_898_898","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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