{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. ix.</span>—10. Again, when he hears, \"He that is washed\r\nby one dead, his washing profiteth him nought,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_654_654\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_654_654\">[654]</a> he will\r\nanswer, \"Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more;\r\ndeath hath no more dominion over Him:\"<a id=\"FNanchor_655_655\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_655_655\">[655]</a> of whom it is said,\r\n\"The same is He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_656_656\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_656_656\">[656]</a>\r\nBut they are baptized by the dead, who are baptized in the\r\ntemples of idols. For even they themselves do not suppose\r\nthat they receive the sanctification which they look for from\r\ntheir priests, but from their gods; and since these were men,\r\nand are dead in such sort as to be now neither upon earth nor\r\nin the rest of heaven,<a id=\"FNanchor_657_657\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_657_657\">[657]</a> they are truly baptized by the dead:\r\nand the same answer will hold good if there be any other way\r\nin which these words of holy Scripture may be examined,\r\nand profitably discussed and understood. For if in this place\r\nI understand a baptizer who is a sinner, the same absurdity\r\nwill follow, that whosoever has been baptized by an ungodly\r\nman, even though his ungodliness be undiscovered, is yet\r\nwashed in vain, as though baptized by one dead. For he does\r\nnot say, He that is baptized by one manifestly dead, but absolutely,\r\n\"by one dead.\" And if they consider any man to be\r\ndead whom they know to be a sinner, but any one in their\r\ncommunion to be alive, even though he manages most adroitly<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_239\">[Pg 239]</a></span>\r\nto conceal a life of wickedness, in the first place with\r\naccursed pride they claim more for themselves than they\r\nascribe to God, that when a sinner is unveiled to them he\r\nshould be called dead, but when he is known by God he is\r\nheld to be alive. In the next place, if that sinner is to be\r\ncalled dead who is known to be such by men, what answer\r\nwill they make about Optatus, whom they were afraid to condemn\r\nthough they had long known his wickedness? Why\r\nare those who were baptized by him not said to have been\r\nbaptized by one dead? Did he live because faith was in his\r\ncompany?<a id=\"FNanchor_658_658\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_658_658\">[658]</a>—an elegant and well-turned saying of some early\r\ncolleagues of their own, which they themselves are wont to quote\r\nwith pride, not understanding that at the death of the haughty\r\nGoliath it was his own sword by which his head was cut off.<a id=\"FNanchor_659_659\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_659_659\">[659]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-406"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"970385187761f33f1f661b8ef4a0fc814ac049491ad24ba637e89e4862f42295","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_657_657","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_657_657","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_657_657\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_657_657\"><span class=\"label\">[657]</span></a> Cp. <i>Contra Cresconium</i>, Book <span class=\"smcap\">II.</span> xxv. 30: \"Ita mortui sunt, ut neque super\r\nterras, neque in requie sanctorum sint.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_657_657","text_sha256":"c95da9e361129d171ca1caf4c28cf75d8e031e11ce0b98ffbd26fb54e0f92011","verified":false,"work_id":null}