{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XX.</span>—22. Wherefore all this about the generation of\r\nvipers, and the poison of asps under their lips, and all the\r\nother things which they have said against those which have\r\nnot known the way of peace, are really, if they would but\r\nspeak the truth, more strictly applicable to themselves, since\r\nfor the sake of the peace of Donatus they received the baptism\r\nof these men, in respect of which they used the expressions\r\nquoted above in the wording of the decree of the Council;\r\nbut the baptism of the Church of Christ dispersed throughout\r\nthe world, from which peace itself came into Africa, they\r\nrepudiate, to the sacrilegious wounding of the peace of Christ.\r\nWhich, therefore, are rather the false prophets, who come in\r\nsheep's clothing, whilst inwardly they are ravening wolves,<a id=\"FNanchor_671_671\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_671_671\">[671]</a>—they\r\nwho either fail to detect the wicked in the Catholic\r\nChurch, and communicate with them in all innocence, or else<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_248\">[Pg 248]</a></span>\r\nfor the sake of the peace of unity are bearing with those whom\r\nthey cannot separate from the threshing-floor of the Lord\r\nbefore the Winnower shall come; or they who do in schism\r\nwhat they censure in the Catholic Church, and receive in their\r\nown separation, when manifest to all and condemned by their\r\nown voice, what they profess that they shun in the unity of\r\nthe Church when it calls for toleration, and does not even\r\ncertainly exist?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-418"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"620fb6e85bbf6ddf116a314fc1b21b830b80d175dbc074d93b510247dbdc5a13","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vii. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_671_671","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_671_671","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_671_671\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_671_671\"><span class=\"label\">[671]</span></a> Matt. vii. 15.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_671_671","text_sha256":"1e6ddadb94f1dc2056f0f8385f65e68b5c03d75b636f158ee6cc814d51faeb00","verified":false,"work_id":null}