{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. liv.</span>—66. Finally, again, a little afterwards, when he\r\nresolved and was firmly purposed, as it were, to reconsider\r\nonce more the words of the apostle which we had brought up\r\nagainst him, he was unwilling to set down this that I had\r\nsaid, preferring something else in which by some means or\r\nother the swelling of human pride might find means to breathe.<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_471\">[Pg 471]</a></span>\r\n\"For to reconsider,\" he says, \"those words of the apostle, on\r\nwhich you founded an argument against us; he said, 'What is\r\nApollos, what is Paul, save only ministers of Him in whom ye\r\nhave believed?'<a id=\"FNanchor_1156_1156\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1156_1156\">[1156]</a> What else, for example, does he say to all\r\nof us than this, What is Donatus of Carthage, what is Januarius,\r\nwhat is Petilianus, save only ministers of Him in whom ye\r\nhave believed?\" I did not bring forward this passage of the\r\napostle, but I did bring forward that which he has been\r\nunwilling to quote, \"Neither he that planteth is anything,\r\nneither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.\"\r\nBut Petilianus was willing to insert those words of the apostle,\r\nin which he asks what is Paul, and what is Apollos, and\r\nanswers that \"They are ministers of Him in whom ye have\r\nbelieved.\" This the muscles of the heretic's neck could bear;\r\nbut he was wholly unable to endure the other, in which the\r\napostle did not ask and answer what he was, but said that he\r\nwas nothing. But now I am willing to ask whether it be\r\ntrue that the minister of Christ is nothing. Who will say\r\nso much as this? In what sense, therefore, is it true that\r\n\"Neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth,\r\nbut God that giveth the increase,\" except that he who\r\nis something in one point of view may be nothing in another?\r\nFor ministering and dispensing the word and sacrament he is\r\nsomething, but for purifying and justifying he is nothing, seeing\r\nthat this is not accomplished in the inner man, except by\r\nHim by whom the whole man was created, and who while He\r\nremained God was made man,—by Him, that is, of whom it was\r\nsaid, \"Purifying their hearts by faith;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1157_1157\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1157_1157\">[1157]</a> and \"To him that believeth\r\non Him that justifieth the ungodly.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1158_1158\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1158_1158\">[1158]</a> And this testimony\r\nPetilianus has been willing to set forth in my words,\r\nwhilst in his own he has neither handled it, nor even touched it.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK THIRD."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-745"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"47fe7c3a689521dd1f66c98151bfe2b0a93d996ce56c229ce4f53035c07001d4","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. iii. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1156_1156","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_1156_1156","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1156_1156\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1156_1156\"><span class=\"label\">[1156]</span></a> Ministri ejus cui credidistis. See 1 Cor. iii. 4, 5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1156_1156","text_sha256":"af0a5ffa26acb45a85bc09371126f9ec06118ea19fdb175b4eea50c295fd1dd6","verified":false,"work_id":null}