{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>19. Nemesianus of Tubunæ has advanced many passages\r\nof Scripture to prove his point; but he has in fact said\r\nmuch on behalf of the view of the Catholic Church, which\r\nwe have undertaken to set forth and maintain. Unless,\r\nindeed, we must suppose that he does not \"trust in what is\r\nfalse\" who trusts in the hope of things temporal, as do all\r\ncovetous men and robbers, and those who renounce the world\r\nin words but not in deeds, of whom Cyprian yet bears witness\r\nthat such men not only baptize, but even are baptized within<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_164\">[Pg 164]</a></span>\r\nthe Church.<a id=\"FNanchor_424_424\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_424_424\">[424]</a> For they themselves also \"follow flying birds,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_425_425\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_425_425\">[425]</a>\r\nsince they do not attain to what they desire. But not only\r\nthe heretic, but every one who leads an evil life, \"deserteth\r\nthe ways of his own vineyard, and hath strayed from the\r\npaths of his own field. And he walketh through pathless and\r\ndry places, and a land destined to thirst; and he gathereth\r\nfruitless weeds in his hands;\" because all justice is fruitful,\r\nand all iniquity is barren. Those, again, who \"drink strange\r\nwater out of a strange fountain,\" are found not only among\r\nheretics, but among all who do not live according to the\r\nteaching of God, and do live according to the teaching of the\r\ndevil. For if he were speaking of baptism, he would not say,\r\n\"Do not drink of a strange fountain,\" but, do not wash thyself\r\nin a strange fountain. Again, I do not see at all what aid he\r\ngets towards proving his point from the words of our Lord,\r\n\"Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot\r\nenter into the kingdom of God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_426_426\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_426_426\">[426]</a> For it is one thing to say\r\nthat every one who shall enter into the kingdom of heaven\r\nis first born again of water and the Spirit, because except a\r\nman be born of water and of the Spirit, he shall not enter\r\ninto the kingdom of heaven, which is the Lord's saying, and\r\nis true; another thing to say that every one who is born of\r\nwater and the Spirit shall enter into the kingdom of heaven,\r\nwhich is assuredly false. For Simon Magus also was born of\r\nwater and of the Spirit,<a id=\"FNanchor_427_427\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_427_427\">[427]</a> and yet he did not enter into the\r\nkingdom of heaven; and this may possibly be the case with\r\nheretics as well. Or if only those are born of the Spirit who\r\nare changed with a true conversion, all who renounce the\r\nworld in word and not in deed are assuredly not born of the\r\nSpirit, but of water only, and yet they are within the Church,\r\naccording to the testimony of Cyprian. For we must perforce\r\ngrant one of two things,—either those who renounce the\r\nworld deceitfully are born of the Spirit, though it is to their\r\ndestruction, not to salvation, and therefore heretics may be so\r\nborn; or if what is written, that \"the Holy Spirit of discipline\r\nwill flee deceit,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_428_428\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_428_428\">[428]</a> extends to proving as much as this,\r\nthat those who renounce the world deceitfully are not born of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_165\">[Pg 165]</a></span>\r\nthe Spirit, then a man may be baptized with water, and not\r\nborn of the Spirit, and Nemesianus says in vain that neither\r\nthe Spirit can work without the water, nor the water without\r\nthe Spirit. Indeed it has been already often shown how it is\r\npossible that men should have one baptism in common who\r\nhave not one Church, as it is possible that in the body of the\r\nChurch herself those who are sanctified by their righteousness,\r\nand those who are polluted through their covetousness, may\r\nnot have the same one Spirit, and yet have the same one\r\nbaptism. For it is said \"one body,\" that is, the Church, just\r\nas it is said \"one Spirit\" and \"one baptism.\" The other\r\narguments which he has adduced rather favour our position.\r\nFor he has brought forward a proof from the gospel, in the\r\nwords, \"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that\r\nwhich is born of the Spirit is spirit; for the Spirit is God,\r\nand born of God;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_429_429\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_429_429\">[429]</a> and he has advanced the argument that\r\ntherefore all things that are done by any heretic or schismatic\r\nare carnal, as the apostle says, \"The works of the flesh are\r\nmanifest, which are these; fornication, uncleanness;\" and so\r\nhe goes through the list which the apostle there enumerates,\r\namongst which he has reckoned heresies, since \"they who do\r\nsuch things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_430_430\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_430_430\">[430]</a> Then he\r\ngoes on to add, that \"therefore the apostle condemns with all\r\nwicked men those also who cause division, that is, schismatics\r\nand heretics.\" And in this he does well, that when he enumerates\r\nthe works of the flesh, among which are also heresies,\r\nhe found and declared that the apostle condemns them all\r\nalike. Let him therefore question the holy Cyprian himself,\r\nand learn from him how many even within the Church live\r\naccording to the evil works of the flesh, which the apostle\r\ncondemns in common with the heresies, and yet these both\r\nbaptize and are baptized. Why then are heretics alone said\r\nto be incapable of possessing baptism, which is possessed by\r\nthe very partners in their condemnation?</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK SIXTH."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-220"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"81021e2b592617769508eb6c270cd13e61eb0f38949b8d10f0c77fab1066582c","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. v. 19-21","verse":19,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_430_430","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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