{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>89. In respect of this testimony of John there is no need\r\nof further disputation, since it has no reference at all to the\r\nquestion of baptism, which we are at present discussing. For\r\nhe says, \"If any come unto you, and bring not the doctrine of\r\nChrist.\" But heretics leaving the doctrine of their error are\r\nconverted to the doctrine of Christ, that they may be incorporated\r\nwith the Church, and may begin to belong to the\r\nmembers of that Dove whose sacrament they previously had;\r\nand therefore what previously they lacked belonging to it is\r\ngiven to them, that is to say, peace and charity out of a pure\r\nheart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.<a id=\"FNanchor_604_604\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_604_604\">[604]</a> But\r\nwhat they previously had belonging to the Dove is acknowledged,\r\nand received without any depreciation; just as in the\r\nadulteress God recognises His gifts, even when she is following\r\nher lovers; because when after her fornication is corrected\r\nshe is turned again to chastity, those gifts are not laid to her\r\ncharge, but she herself is corrected.<a id=\"FNanchor_605_605\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_605_605\">[605]</a> But just as Cyprian\r\nmight have defended himself, if this testimony of John had\r\nbeen cast in his teeth, whilst he was holding communion\r\nwith men like these, so let those against whom it is spoken\r\nmake their own defence. For to the question before us, as\r\nI said before, it has no reference at all. For John says that\r\nwe are not to bid God speed to men of strange doctrine; but\r\nPaul the apostle says, with even greater vehemence, \"If any\r\nman that is called a brother be covetous, or a drunkard,\" or\r\nanything of the sort, with such an one no not to eat;<a id=\"FNanchor_606_606\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_606_606\">[606]</a> and\r\nyet Cyprian used to admit to fellowship, not with his private\r\ntable, but with the altar of God, his colleagues who were\r\nusurers, and treacherous, and fraudulent, and robbers. But\r\nin what manner this may be defended has been sufficiently\r\nset forth in other books already.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SEVENTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-378"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6f22104e7298486a93f6942acc3b0edffef386f3a7868f3607934ae870f0408d","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. v. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_606_606","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_606_606","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_606_606\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_606_606\"><span class=\"label\">[606]</span></a> 1 Cor. v. 11.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_606_606","text_sha256":"12cb359c5217a43d24356c4e0169db2039194925d1643c520700cd18a7d34c3a","verified":false,"work_id":null}