{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>61. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: Are you then really not\r\nashamed to call the baptism of Christ a lie, even when it is\r\nfound in the most false of men? Far be it from any one to\r\nsuppose that the wheat of the Lord, which has been commanded\r\nto grow among the tares throughout the whole field,\r\nthat is, throughout the whole of this world, until the harvest,\r\nthat is, until the end of the world,<a id=\"FNanchor_771_771\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_771_771\">[771]</a> can have perished in consequence\r\nof your evil words. Nay, even among the very\r\ntares themselves, which are commanded not to be gathered,\r\nbut to be tolerated even to the end, and among the very chaff,\r\nwhich shall only be separated from the wheat by the winnow<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_291\">[Pg 291]</a></span>ing\r\nat the last day,<a id=\"FNanchor_772_772\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_772_772\">[772]</a> does any one dare to say that any baptism\r\nis false which is given and received in the name of the\r\nFather, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost? Would you\r\nsay that those whom you depose from their office, whether as\r\nyour colleagues or your fellow-priests, on the testimony of\r\nwomen whom they have seduced (since examples of this kind\r\nare not wanting anywhere), were false or true before their\r\ncrime was proved against them? You will certainly answer,\r\nFalse. Why then were they able both to have and to give\r\ntrue baptism? Why did not their falseness as men corrupt\r\nin them the truth of God? Is it not most truly written,\r\n\"For the Holy Spirit of discipline will flee deceit?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_773_773\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_773_773\">[773]</a> Seeing\r\nthen that the Holy Spirit fled from them, how came it that\r\nthe truth of baptism was in them, except because what\r\nthe Holy Spirit fled from was the falseness of man, not the\r\ntruth of the sacrament? Further, if even the deceitful have\r\nthe true baptism, how do they have it who possess it in truthfulness?\r\nWhence you ought to observe that it is rather your\r\nconversation which is coloured with childish pigments; and\r\naccordingly, he who neglects the living Word to take pleasure\r\nin such colouring is himself loving the picture in the place of\r\nthe reality.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-490"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"56f6f6e3f369cda94dd735ae9632d21b7d19d683f4501346bf27c7cec1cccbfe","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xiii. 24-30","verse":24,"verse_end":30}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_771_771","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_771_771","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_771_771\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_771_771\"><span class=\"label\">[771]</span></a> Matt. xiii. 24-30, 36-43.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_771_771","text_sha256":"0fc4c4a2bac9a234d36ea98b674c04be2ded5bfecd3663135d726cbf6debf806","verified":false,"work_id":null}