{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>50. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: If therefore every <i>traditor</i> has\r\nforfeited his baptism, it will follow that every one who, having\r\nbeen baptized by you, has afterwards become a <i>traditor</i>, ought\r\nto be baptized afresh. And if you do not do this, you yourselves\r\nsufficiently prove the falseness of the saying, \"Whosoever\r\ntherefore has incurred the guilt of treason, has forfeited,\r\nlike you, his baptism.\" For if he has forfeited it, let him\r\nreturn and receive it again; but if he returns and does not\r\nreceive it, it is clear that he had not forfeited it. Again, if\r\nthe reason why it was said to the apostles, \"Now are ye\r\nclean,\" and \"My peace I give unto you,\" was that the traitor\r\nhad already left the room, then was not that supper of so\r\ngreat a sacrament clean and able to give peace, which He distributed\r\nto all before his going out? And if you venture to\r\nsay this with your eyes closed against the truth, what can we\r\ndo save exclaim the more, See how blindness comes in punishment\r\nof the madness of those who wish to be, as the apostle\r\nsays, \"teachers of the law, understanding neither what they\r\nsay, nor whereof they affirm?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_759_759\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_759_759\">[759]</a> And yet, unless blindness\r\ncame in the way of their pertinacity, it was not a very difficult\r\nmatter that you should understand and see that the Lord<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_283\">[Pg 283]</a></span>\r\ndid not say in the presence of Judas, Ye are not yet clean,\r\nbut \"Now are ye clean.\" He added, however, \"But not all,\"\r\nbecause there was one there who was not clean; yet if he\r\nhad been polluting the others by his presence, it would not\r\nhave been declared to them, \"Now are ye clean,\" but, as I\r\nsaid before, Ye are not yet clean. But, after Judas had gone\r\nout, He said to them, \"Now are ye clean,\" and did not add\r\nthe words, But not all, because he had now departed in\r\nwhose presence indeed, as had been said to them, they were\r\nalready clean, but not all, because there was one there unclean.\r\nWherefore in these words the Lord rather declared that in\r\nthe one company of men receiving the same sacraments, the\r\nuncleanness of some members cannot hurt the clean. Certainly,\r\nif you think that there are among us men like Judas,\r\nyou might apply to us the words, \"Ye are clean, but not all.\"\r\nBut this is not what you say; but you say that because of\r\nthe presence of some who are unclean, therefore we are all\r\nunclean. This the Lord did not say to the disciples in the\r\npresence of Judas, and therefore whoever says this has not\r\nlearned from the good Master what He says.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-479"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d4d39392b2faa202928b7327733946b36a1f4fc29a1af8923aacc7a4ccef2a30","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1TI","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Tim. i. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_759_759","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_759_759","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_759_759\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_759_759\"><span class=\"label\">[759]</span></a> 1 Tim. i. 7.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_759_759","text_sha256":"aa596a77066bc5f84943a4fbe9af11cb625d5181097803e37583c2ed274e3e50","verified":false,"work_id":null}