{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>89. To come next to what you think you say against us\r\nwith so much point: \"If we do ill in urging this, why do\r\nyou seek after us?\" cannot you even yet call to mind that\r\nonly those are sought after who have perished? Or is the\r\nincapacity for seeing this an element in your ruin? For the\r\nsheep might say to the shepherd with equal absurdity, If I do\r\nwrong in straying from the flock, why do you search after me?\r\nnot understanding that the very reason why it is being sought\r\nis because it thinks there is no need for seeking it. But who\r\nis there that seeks for you, either through His Scriptures, or\r\nby catholic and conciliatory voices, or by the scourgings of\r\ntemporal afflictions, save only Him who dispenses that mercy\r\nto you in all things? We therefore seek you that we may<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_311\">[Pg 311]</a></span>\r\nfind you; for we love you that you should have life, with the\r\nsame intensity with which we hate your error, that it might\r\nbe destroyed which seeks to ruin you, so long as it is not\r\nitself involved in your destruction. And would to God that\r\nwe might seek you in such a manner as even to find, and be\r\nable to say with rejoicing of each one of you, \"He was dead,\r\nand is alive again; he was lost, and is found!\"<a id=\"FNanchor_815_815\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_815_815\">[815]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-518"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"20c70ae0661bf22730ed3e0e14835da8a0d98f972ac7ceb36af93f1fb0e18414","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":15,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke xv. 32","verse":32,"verse_end":32}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_815_815","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_815_815","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_815_815\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_815_815\"><span class=\"label\">[815]</span></a> Luke xv. 32.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_815_815","text_sha256":"cf82a27d75f9e6e62ad660de515f863ad9cd283ead018d73a69b435898bf3e92","verified":false,"work_id":null}