{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. xix.</span>—26. Let us therefore not flatter the Catholic\r\nwho is hemmed in with all these vices, nor venture, merely\r\nbecause he is a Catholic Christian, to promise him the impunity\r\nwhich holy Scripture does not promise him; nor, if he\r\nhas any one of the faults above mentioned, ought we to promise\r\nhim a partnership in that heavenly land. For, in writing to\r\nthe Corinthians, the apostle enumerates the several sins, under\r\neach of which it is implicitly understood that it shall not inherit\r\nthe kingdom of God: \"Be not deceived,\" he says:\r\n\"neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,\r\nnor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves,\r\nnor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall\r\ninherit the kingdom of God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_286_286\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_286_286\">[286]</a> He does not say, those who\r\npossess all these vices together shall not inherit the kingdom\r\nof God; but neither these nor those: so that, as each is\r\nnamed, you may understand that no one of them shall inherit\r\nthe kingdom of God. As, therefore, heretics shall not possess\r\nthe kingdom of God, so the covetous shall not inherit the\r\nkingdom of God. Nor can we indeed doubt that the punishments\r\nthemselves, with which they shall be tortured who do\r\nnot inherit the kingdom of God, will vary in proportion to\r\nthe difference of their offences, and that some will be more\r\nsevere than others; so that in the eternal fire itself there will\r\nbe different tortures in the punishments, corresponding to the\r\ndifferent weights of guilt. For indeed it was not idly that\r\nthe Lord said, \"It shall be more tolerable for the land of\r\nSodom in the day of judgment than for thee.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_287_287\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_287_287\">[287]</a> But yet, so\r\nfar as failing to inherit the kingdom of God is concerned, it\r\nis just as certain, if you choose any one of the less heinous of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_107\">[Pg 107]</a></span>\r\nthese vices, as if you chose more than one, or some one\r\nwhich you saw was more atrocious; and because those will\r\ninherit the kingdom of God whom the Judge shall set on His\r\nright hand, and for those who shall not be found worthy to\r\nbe set at the right hand nothing will remain but to be at the\r\nleft, no other announcement is left for them to hear like goats\r\nfrom the mouth of the Shepherd, except, \"Depart into everlasting\r\nfire, prepared for the devil and his angels;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_288_288\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_288_288\">[288]</a> though in\r\nthat fire, as I said before, it may be that different punishments\r\nwill be awarded corresponding to the difference of the sins.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FOURTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-151"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"64565082d5bc07f470c2bce959e81569c1e951a8db7b21c9f451f061c68a0814","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xi. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_287_287","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_287_287","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_287_287\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_287_287\"><span class=\"label\">[287]</span></a> Matt. xi. 24.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_287_287","text_sha256":"c64a56ac4e0a23fe72b210ac5314196d622123f31054907accf41ce2c031195f","verified":false,"work_id":null}