{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. viii.</span>—9. When he hears, \"Every good tree bringeth\r\ngood fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit: do men\r\ngather grapes of thorns?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_651_651\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_651_651\">[651]</a> and, \"A good man out of the good\r\ntreasure of his heart bringeth forth good things, and an evil man\r\nout of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_652_652\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_652_652\">[652]</a> he will\r\nanswer, This therefore is good fruit, that I should be a good\r\ntree, that is, a good man; that I should show forth good fruit,\r\nthat is, good works. But this will be given to me, not by\r\nhim that planteth, nor by him that watereth, but by God that\r\ngiveth the increase. For if the good tree be the good baptizer,\r\nso that his good fruit should be the man whom he\r\nbaptizes, then any one who has been baptized by a bad man,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_238\">[Pg 238]</a></span>\r\neven if his wickedness be not manifest, will have no power to\r\nbe good, for he is sprung from an evil tree. For a good tree\r\nis one thing; a tree whose quality is concealed, but yet bad,\r\nis another. Or if, when the tree is bad, but hides its badness,\r\nthen whosoever is baptized by it is born not of it, but of\r\nChrist; then they are justified with more perfect holiness\r\nwho are baptized by the bad who hide their evil nature, than\r\nthey who are baptized by the manifestly good.<a id=\"FNanchor_653_653\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_653_653\">[653]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-405"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3850ed08ae17ef424abc33c13607faf8713edc7e26fa120fc650e5653bf09d89","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xii. 35","verse":35,"verse_end":35}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_652_652","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_652_652","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_652_652\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_652_652\"><span class=\"label\">[652]</span></a> Matt. xii. 35.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_652_652","text_sha256":"afe1eb9bca35e8cba18a36f41d22e49b8a041807a139be91bc6ebadfbf1d7043","verified":false,"work_id":null}