{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xxxiii.</span>—77. <span class=\"smcap\">Petilianus</span> said: \"But that I may\r\nthoroughly investigate the baptism in the name of the Trinity,\r\nthe Lord Christ said to His apostles: 'Go ye, and baptize all\r\nnations, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the\r\nHoly Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever\r\nI have commanded you.'<a id=\"FNanchor_796_796\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_796_796\">[796]</a> Whom do you teach, <i>traditor</i>?\r\nHim whom you condemn? Whom do you teach, <i>traditor</i>?\r\nHim whom you slay? Once more, whom do you teach? Him\r\nwhom you have made a murderer? How then do you baptize\r\nin the name of the Trinity? You cannot call God your\r\nFather. For when the Lord Christ said, 'Blessed are the\r\npeacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God,'<a id=\"FNanchor_797_797\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_797_797\">[797]</a>\r\nyou who have not peace at your heart cannot have God for\r\nyour Father. Or how, again, can you baptize in the name of\r\nthe Son, who betray that Son Himself, who do not imitate\r\nthe Son of God in any of His sufferings or crosses? Or how,\r\nagain, can you baptize in the name of the Holy Ghost, when\r\nthe Holy Ghost came only on those apostles who were not<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_301\">[Pg 301]</a></span>\r\nguilty of treason? Seeing, therefore, that God is not your\r\nFather, neither are you truly born again with the water of baptism.\r\nNo one of you is born perfectly. You in your impiety\r\nhave neither father nor mother. Seeing, then, that you are of\r\nsuch a kind, ought I not to baptize you, even though you\r\nwash yourselves a thousand times, after the similitude of the\r\nJews, who as it were baptize the flesh?\"</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-506"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"df738ab16031a9b104f0ecf11dc51c0cf63691b113ec2666828418f5b7d4cb8c","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":28,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxviii. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_796_796","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_796_796","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_796_796\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_796_796\"><span class=\"label\">[796]</span></a> Matt. xxviii. 19, 20.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_796_796","text_sha256":"1ee2dbeba4ba4a162959ca5b2aa784984ab8fc033fe7bc421e8a8835a1966f90","verified":false,"work_id":null}