{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. vii.</span>—14. <span class=\"smcap\">Petilianus</span> said: \"And again, 'He who is\r\nbaptized by one that is dead, his washing profiteth him\r\nnothing.'<a id=\"FNanchor_693_693\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_693_693\">[693]</a> He did not mean that the baptizer was a corpse,\r\na lifeless body, the remains of a man ready for burial, but\r\none lacking the Spirit of God, who is compared to a dead\r\nbody, as He declares to a disciple in another place, according\r\nto the witness of the gospel. For His disciple says, 'Lord,\r\nsuffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto\r\nhim, Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.'<a id=\"FNanchor_694_694\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_694_694\">[694]</a> The\r\nfather of the disciple was not baptized. He declared him as a\r\npagan to belong to the company of pagans; unless he said\r\nthis of the unbelieving, The dead cannot bury the dead. He\r\nwas dead, therefore, not as smitten by some death, but as\r\nsmitten even during life. For he who so lives as to be doomed\r\nto eternal death is tortured by a death in life. To be baptized,\r\ntherefore, by the dead, is to have received not life but\r\ndeath. We must therefore consider and declare how far the\r\n<i>traditor</i> is to be accounted dead while yet alive. He is\r\ndead who has not deserved to be born again with a true baptism;\r\nhe is likewise dead who, having been born again with\r\na true baptism, has become involved with a <i>traditor</i>. Both are\r\nwanting in the life of baptism,—both he who never had it at\r\nall, and he who had it and has lost it. For the Lord Jesus\r\nChrist says, 'There shall come to that man seven spirits more\r\nwicked than the former one, and the last state of that man\r\nshall be worse than the first.'\"<a id=\"FNanchor_695_695\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_695_695\">[695]</a></p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-443"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"858c8d59d5d2aa2f9bb1043370b7493abe915b057ce3811257b35e34d6e2b8cf","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. viii. 21","verse":21,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_694_694","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_694_694","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_694_694\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_694_694\"><span class=\"label\">[694]</span></a> Matt. viii. 21, 22.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_694_694","text_sha256":"099abd97070d0b6582fe100e826578d03c9e3ff4dcaf45d792d4f9cff2a647ca","verified":false,"work_id":null}