{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. lxxxiv.</span>—185. <span class=\"smcap\">Petilianus</span> said: \"For the Lord\r\nChrist says, 'No man can come to me, except the Father\r\nwhich hath sent me draw him.'<a id=\"FNanchor_912_912\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_912_912\">[912]</a> But why do we not permit\r\neach several person to follow his free will, since the Lord<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_355\">[Pg 355]</a></span>\r\nGod Himself has given free will to men, showing to them,\r\nhowever, the way of righteousness, lest any one by chance\r\nshould perish from ignorance of it? For He said, 'I have\r\nplaced before thee good and evil. I have set fire and water\r\nbefore thee: stretch forth thine hand unto whether thou wilt.'\r\nFrom which choice, you wretched men, you have chosen for\r\nyourselves not water, but rather fire. 'But yet,' He says,\r\n'stretch forth thine hand unto the good, that thou mayest\r\nlive.'<a id=\"FNanchor_913_913\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_913_913\">[913]</a> You who will not choose the good, have, by your own\r\nsentence, declared that you do not wish to live.\"</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-614"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"990a2b6094580f0ba354fd330580313348cd116b1a066a3d6c7e67aa5429df3f","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John vi. 44","verse":44,"verse_end":44}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_912_912","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_912_912","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_912_912\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_912_912\"><span class=\"label\">[912]</span></a> John vi. 44.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_912_912","text_sha256":"441c264427406caabe26ce7d805a560cba94f22919dff62f931e6c5a752d733e","verified":false,"work_id":null}