{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>126. <span class=\"smcap\">Augustine</span> answered: We acknowledge the word of\r\nthe Lord. Hence also the apostle says, \"Though I have all\r\nfaith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity,\r\nI am nothing.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_857_857\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_857_857\">[857]</a> Here therefore we must inquire who it is\r\nthat has charity: you will find that it is no one else but\r\nthose who are lovers of unity. For as to the driving out of\r\ndevils, and as to the working of miracles, seeing that very\r\nmany do not do such things who yet belong to the kingdom\r\nof God, and very many do them who do not belong to it,\r\nneither our party nor your party have any cause for boasting,\r\nif any of them chance to have this power, since the Lord did\r\nnot think it right that even the apostles, who could truly do\r\nsuch things both to profit and salvation, should boast in<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_329\">[Pg 329]</a></span>\r\nthings like this, when He says to them, \"In this rejoice not,\r\nthat the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because\r\nyour names are written in heaven.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_858_858\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_858_858\">[858]</a> Wherefore all\r\nthose things which you have advanced from the writings of\r\nthe gospel I also might repeat to you, if I saw you working\r\nthe powerful acts of signs and miracles; and so might you\r\nrepeat them to me, if you saw me doing things of a like sort.\r\nLet us not, therefore, say one to another what may equally be\r\nsaid on the other side as well; and, putting aside all quibbles,\r\nsince we are inquiring where the Church of Christ is to be\r\nfound, let us listen to the words of Christ Himself, who redeemed\r\nit with His own blood: \"Ye shall be witnesses unto\r\nme both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and\r\nunto the uttermost part of the earth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_859_859\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_859_859\">[859]</a> You see then who\r\nit is with whom a man refuses to communicate who will not\r\ncommunicate with this Church, which is spread throughout\r\nall the world, if at least you hear whose words these are.\r\nFor what is a greater proof of madness than to hold communion\r\nwith the sacraments of the Lord, and to refuse to hold\r\ncommunion with the words of the Lord? Such men at any\r\nrate are likely to say, In Thy name have we eaten and\r\ndrunken, and to hear the words, \"I never knew you,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_860_860\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_860_860\">[860]</a> seeing\r\nthat they eat His body and drink His blood in the sacrament,\r\nand do not recognise in the gospel His members which\r\nare spread abroad throughout the earth, and therefore are not\r\nthemselves counted among them in the judgment.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SECOND."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-555"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f5977f0a8ed8aed0e46c83fc34a7d72b69046188467e46e045717cd1b63f86d4","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. xiii. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_857_857","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_857_857","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_857_857\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_857_857\"><span class=\"label\">[857]</span></a> 1 Cor. xiii. 2.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_857_857","text_sha256":"4e3b55e2867d99f91131f97bd8f2f0180e6874d5eb57b6c23852bb56cfc3ff69","verified":false,"work_id":null}