{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>43. He added the word \"outside\" in order that he might\r\nnot be answered with a like brevity to Successus. For other<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_175\">[Pg 175]</a></span>wise\r\nhe might also have been answered word for word:\r\nJesus Christ our Lord and God, the Son of God the Father\r\nand Creator, built His Church upon a rock, not upon iniquity,\r\nand gave the power of baptizing to bishops, not to the unrighteous.\r\nWherefore those who do not belong to the rock\r\non which they build who hear the word of God and do it,<a id=\"FNanchor_467_467\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_467_467\">[467]</a>\r\nbut, living contrary to Christ in hearing the word and not\r\ndoing it, and hereby building on the sand, in this way scatter\r\nHis sheep and flock by the example of an abandoned character,\r\ncannot baptize. Might not this be said with all the semblance\r\nof truth? and yet it is false. For the unrighteous do\r\nbaptize, since those robbers are unrighteous whom Cyprian\r\nmaintained to be at unity with himself.<a id=\"FNanchor_468_468\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_468_468\">[468]</a> But for this reason,\r\nsays the Donatist, he adds \"outside.\" Why therefore can\r\nthey not baptize outside? Is it because they are worse from\r\nthe very fact that they are outside? But it makes no difference,\r\nin respect of the validity of baptism, how much worse\r\nthe minister may be. For there is not so much difference\r\nbetween bad and worse as between good and bad; and yet,\r\nwhen the bad baptizes, he gives the selfsame sacrament as\r\nthe good. Therefore, also, when the worse baptizes, he gives\r\nthe selfsame sacrament as the less bad. Or is it that it is\r\nnot in respect of man's merit, but of the sacrament of baptism\r\nitself, that it cannot be given outside? If this were so,\r\nneither could it be possessed outside, and it would be necessary\r\nthat a man should be baptized again so often as he left\r\nthe Church and again returned to it.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-244"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6a75b6949d0eaf2453375f44134258249e56f96c16d8dc5a34d236ad6b849540","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vii. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_467_467","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_467_467","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_467_467\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_467_467\"><span class=\"label\">[467]</span></a> Matt. vii. 24.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_467_467","text_sha256":"8b9c8fa4de7914d493d3fe10bf791907f32deda5558e9e64fa0a28fc01cd9d45","verified":false,"work_id":null}