{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>30. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: We are not wont to say, \"He\r\nwas a slanderer,\" but \"He was a murderer.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_715_715\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_715_715\">[715]</a> But we ask\r\nhow it was that the devil was a murderer from the beginning;\r\nand we find that he slew the first man, not by drawing a\r\nsword, nor by applying to him any bodily violence, but by\r\npersuading him to sin, and thus driving him from the happiness\r\nof Paradise. What then was Paradise is now represented\r\nby the Church. Therefore those are the sons of the devil\r\nwho slay men by withdrawing them from the Church. But\r\nas by the words of God we know what was the situation of\r\nParadise, so now by the words of Christ we have learned\r\nwhere the Church is to be found: \"Throughout all nations,\"\r\nHe says, \"beginning at Jerusalem.\" Whosoever, therefore,\r\nseparates a man from that complete whole to place him in\r\nany single part, is proved to be a son of the devil and a\r\nmurderer. But see, further, what is the application of the\r\nexpression which you yourself employed in saying of the\r\ndevil, \"He was a slanderer, and abode not in the truth.\"\r\nFor you bring an accusation against the whole world on\r\naccount of the sins of others, though even those others themselves\r\nyou were more able to accuse than to convict; and\r\nyou abode not in the truth of Christ. For He says that the\r\nChurch is \"throughout all nations, beginning at Jerusalem;\"\r\nbut ye say that it is in the party of Donatus.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-459"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1738b522bbfc6928b2142d6ea9e987ecde189fa4726ce16be32e102964982808","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John viii. 44","verse":44,"verse_end":44}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_715_715","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_715_715","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_715_715\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_715_715\"><span class=\"label\">[715]</span></a> John viii. 44.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_715_715","text_sha256":"6a1bfa48877e36df8bcca9c019a1fb2b2281de05ef99c4c845e869d7b13d2e28","verified":false,"work_id":null}