{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"cap\">CHAP. I.—1. Being able to read, Petilianus, I have read\r\nyour letter, in which you have shown with sufficient\r\nclearness that, in supporting the party of Donatus against the\r\nCatholic Church, you have neither been able to say anything\r\nto the purpose, nor been allowed to hold your tongue. What\r\nviolent emotions did you endure, what a storm of feelings\r\nsurged within your heart, on reading the answer which I made,\r\nwith all possible brevity and clearness, to that portion of your\r\nletter which alone at that time had come into my hands!\r\nFor you saw that the truth which we maintain and defend\r\nwas confirmed with such strength of argument, and illustrated\r\nwith such abundant light, that you could not find anything\r\nwhich could be said against it, whereby the charges which we\r\nmake might be refuted. You observed, also, that the attention\r\nof many who had read it was fixed on you, since they\r\ndesired to know what you would say, what you would do,\r\nhow you would escape from the difficulty, how you would\r\nmake your way out of the strait in which the word of God\r\nhad encompassed you. Hereupon you, when you ought to\r\nhave shown contempt for the opinion of the foolish ones, and\r\nto have gone on to adopt sound and truthful sentiments, preferred\r\nrather to do what Scripture has foretold of men like\r\nyou: \"Thou hast loved evil more than good, and lying<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_406\">[Pg 406]</a></span>\r\nrather than to speak righteousness.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1030_1030\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1030_1030\">[1030]</a> Just as if I in turn\r\nwere willing to recompense unto you railing for railing; in\r\nwhich case, what should we be but two evil speakers, so that\r\nthose who read our words would either preserve their self-respect\r\nby throwing us aside with abhorrence, or eagerly devour\r\nwhat we wrote to gratify their malice? For my own\r\npart, since I answer every one, whether in writing or by word\r\nof mouth, even when I have been attacked with insulting\r\naccusations, in such language as the Lord puts in my mouth,\r\nrestraining and crushing the stings of empty indignation in\r\nthe interests of my hearer or reader, I do not strive to prove\r\nmyself superior to my adversary by abusing him, but rather\r\nto be a source of health in him by convicting him of his\r\nerror.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-678"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8ebee7e672e1fcda74195fb24d053eb93874a0bcdaa3ff100d19f910f76f9452","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":52,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. lii. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1030_1030","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_1030_1030","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1030_1030\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1030_1030\"><span class=\"label\">[1030]</span></a> Ps. lii. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1030_1030","text_sha256":"bdc07b44a6758a928fcb4a16ad9f17b7df8176b90356429ab3498443472d72e1","verified":false,"work_id":null}