{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xxi.</span>—47. <span class=\"smcap\">Petilianus</span> said: \"Accordingly, as we have\r\nsaid, the Lord Christ cried, 'Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou\r\nme? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And\r\nhe said, Who art Thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus\r\nof Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. And he, trembling and\r\nastonished, said, Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do? And\r\nthe Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it\r\nshall be told thee what thou must do.' And so presently it\r\ngoes on, 'But Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes\r\nwere opened, he saw no man.' See here how blindness,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_281\">[Pg 281]</a></span>\r\ncoming in punishment of madness, obscures the light in the\r\neyes of the persecutor, not to be again expelled except by\r\nbaptism! Let us see, therefore, what he did in the city.\r\n'Ananias,' it is said, 'entered into the house to Saul, and\r\nputting his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even\r\nJesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest,\r\nhath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be\r\nfilled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell from\r\nhis eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith,\r\nand arose, and was baptized.'<a id=\"FNanchor_755_755\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_755_755\">[755]</a> Seeing therefore that\r\nPaul, being freed by baptism from the offence of persecution,\r\nreceived again his eyesight freed from guilt, why will not\r\nyou, a persecutor and <i>traditor</i>, blinded by false baptism, be\r\nbaptized by those whom you persecute?\"</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-476"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6234f16c1735a18f49638d24bd84161705566bdbaf5390c4ee587131c3e7e991","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ACT","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Acts ix. 4-18","verse":4,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_755_755","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_755_755","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_755_755\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_755_755\"><span class=\"label\">[755]</span></a> Acts ix. 4-18.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_755_755","text_sha256":"0c42e394485420c685632eaee6786b52aeea8c1c40e4d4c14de9f8b48a1ebc9b","verified":false,"work_id":null}