{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>228. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: It is not beside the purpose to\r\ninquire into the true meaning of this passage also. For where\r\nmy purpose is not interfered with by any mistake which you\r\nmake, or any false impression which you convey in quoting\r\nfrom the Scriptures, I do not concern myself about the matter.\r\nIt is not then written, \"Whosoever shall lose his substance,\"\r\nbut \"Whosoever shall lose his life for my sake.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_982_982\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_982_982\">[982]</a> And the\r\npassage about substance is not, \"Whosoever shall lose,\" but\r\n\"Every one that hath forsaken;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_983_983\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_983_983\">[983]</a> and that not only with\r\nreference to substance of money, but many other things besides.\r\nBut you meanwhile have not lost your substance; but\r\nwhether you have forsaken it, in that you so boast of poverty,\r\nI cannot say. And if by any chance my colleague Fortunatus\r\nmay know this, being in the same city with you, he never\r\ntold me, because I had never asked him. However, even if\r\nyou had done this, you have yet yourself quoted the testimony\r\nof the apostle against yourself in this very epistle which you\r\nhave written: \"Though I bestow all my goods to feed the\r\npoor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not\r\ncharity, it profiteth me nothing.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_984_984\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_984_984\">[984]</a> For if you had charity, you\r\nwould not bring charges against the whole world, which knows\r\nnothing of you, and of which you know no more,—no, not\r\neven such charges as are founded on the proved offences of the\r\nAfricans. If you had charity, you would not picture to yourself\r\na false unity in your calumnies, but you would learn to\r\nrecognise the unity that is most clearly set forth in the words\r\nof the Lord: \"Unto the uttermost part of the earth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_985_985\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_985_985\">[985]</a> But\r\nif you did not do this, why do you boast as though you had\r\ndone it? Are you really so filled with fear of riches, that,\r\nhaving nothing, you possess all things? Tell that to your\r\ncolleague Crispinus, who lately bought a farm near our city\r\nof Hippo, that he might there plunge men into the lowest\r\nabyss of error.<a id=\"FNanchor_986_986\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_986_986\">[986]</a> Whence I too know this all too well. You\r\nperhaps are not aware of it, and therefore shout out in\r\nsecurity, \"We stand in fear of riches.\" And hence I am\r\nsurprised that that cry of yours has been allowed to pass\r\nCrispinus, so as to reach us. For between Constantina, where<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_389\">[Pg 389]</a></span>\r\nyou are, and Hippo, where I am, lies Calama, where he is,\r\nnearer indeed to our side, but still between us. I wonder,\r\ntherefore, how it was that he did not first intercept this cry,\r\nand strike it back so that it should not reach to our ears; and\r\nthat he did not, in opposition to you, recite in much more\r\ncopious phrase a eulogy on riches. For he not only stands\r\nin no fear of riches, but he actually loves them. And certainly,\r\nbefore you utter anything about the rest, you should\r\nrehearse such views to him. If he makes no corrections, then\r\nwe have our answer ready. But for yourself, if it be true\r\nthat you are poor, you have with you my brother Fortunatus.\r\nYou will be more likely with such sentiments to please him,\r\nwho is my colleague, than Crispinus, who is your own.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-657"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"50beeab215c7dd4f0aec487ea0296c77835bb36fecf1013c374b47c58ab8ca67","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":19,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xix. 29","verse":29,"verse_end":29}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_983_983","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. 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