{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>180. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: You speak against yourself;\r\nbut yet, since you speak on the side of truth, if you love it,\r\nlet what you say be counted for you. For I ask of you of\r\nwhom it was that the Apostle Paul said this? Let us, if\r\nyou please, trace this a little further back. \"Some,\" he says,\r\n\"preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good\r\nwill. The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing\r\nto add affliction to my bonds; but the other of love,\r\nknowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. What\r\nthen? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in\r\ntruth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and\r\nwill rejoice.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_903_903\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_903_903\">[903]</a> We see that they preached what was in itself\r\nholy, and pure, and true, but yet not in a pure manner, but\r\nof envy and contention, without charity, without purity.\r\nCertainly a short time ago you appeared to be urging the\r\npraises of charity as against us, according to the witness of\r\nthe apostle, that where there is no charity, whatever there is is\r\nof no avail; and yet you see that in those there is no charity,\r\nand there was with them the preaching of Christ, of which\r\nthe apostle says here that he rejoices. For it is not that he\r\nrejoices in what is evil in them, but in what is good in the\r\nname of Jesus Christ. In him assuredly there was the\r\ncharity which \"rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the\r\ntruth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_904_904\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_904_904\">[904]</a> The envy, moreover, which was in them is an evil\r\nproceeding from the devil, for by this he has both killed and\r\ncast down. Where then were these wicked men whom the\r\napostle thus condemns, and in whom there was so much\r\nthat was good to cause him to rejoice? Were they within, or\r\nwithout? Choose which you will. If they were within, then\r\nPaul knew them, and yet they did not pollute him. And so\r\nyou would not be polluted in the unity of the whole world\r\nby those of whom you make certain charges, whether these be\r\ntrue, or falsehoods invented by yourselves. But if they were\r\nwithout, then you see that even in those who were without,\r\nand who certainly cannot belong to everlasting life, since they<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_351\">[Pg 351]</a></span>\r\nhave not charity, and do not abide in unity, there is yet\r\nfound the holiness of the name of Christ, so that the apostle\r\njoyfully confirms their teaching, on account of the intrinsic\r\nholiness of the name, although he repudiates them. We are\r\nright, therefore, in not doing wrong to the actual name, when\r\nthose come to us who were without; but we correct the individuals,\r\nwhile we do honour to the name. Do you therefore\r\ntake heed, and see how wickedly you act in the case of\r\nthose whose acts as it seems you condemn, by treating as\r\nnaught the sacrament of the name of Christ, which is holy in\r\nthem. And you, indeed, as is shown by your words, think\r\nthat those men of whom the apostle spoke were outside the\r\nlimits of the Church. Therefore, when you fear persecution\r\nfrom the Catholics, of which you speak in order to create\r\nodium against us, you have confirmed in heretics the name of\r\nChrist to which you do despite by rebaptizing.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-609"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"66db89610b127ad825f1de1a62dc6640fe001749b9fb109e44ebf79627fc2beb","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PHP","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Phil. i. 15-18","verse":15,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_903_903","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. 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