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or wrinkle, who associates with the congregation of the saints in carnal obstinacy. Yet we ought to despair of no man, whether he be one who shows himself to be of this nature within the pale of the Church, or whether he more openly opposes it from without. But the spiritual, or those who are steadily advancing with pious exertion towards this end, do not stray without the pale; since even when, by some perversity or necessity among men, they seem to be driven forth, they are more approved than if they had remained within, since they are in no degree roused to contend against the Church, but remain rooted in the strongest foundation of Christian charity on the solid rock of unity. For hereunto belongs what is said in the sacrifice of Abraham: "But the birds divided he not."

FOOTNOTES:

This treatise was written about 400 A.D.

Comp. v. 23, and iii. 16, note.

Eph. ii. 6.

Matt. vii. 15.

Matt. xxiv. 23.

Matt. xi. 24.

Quodam modo cardinales Donatistas.

See below, on ii. 9.

Matt. xii. 30.

Mark ix. 38, 39; Luke ix. 50.

Acts x.

Ex. xxxii.

Num. xvi.

John xi. 51.

Acts viii. 13.

Mark i. 24.

Eph. iv. 2, 3.

Acts viii. 13, 21.

Gen. xxi. 10.

Gen. xxx. 3.

Mal. i. 2, 3; Gen. xxv. 24.

Matt. xxviii. 19.

John xx. 23.

Song of Sol. vi. 9.

Gal. iii. 27.

Wisd. i. 5.

Matt. xviii. 23-35.

Gal. iv.

Ps. cxxxix. 16.

Non caste; . Phil. i. 16.

Gen. xv. 10.

See below, ii. 9.

Eph. iv. 2, 3.

Ps. lxxiii. 18.

John xv. 1, 2.

John xiii. 34.

Gal. v. 22, 23.

Botrum.

John xv. 2.

Rom. iii. 17; from which it has been introduced into the Alexandrine MS. of the Septuagint at Ps. xiv. 3, as it is quoted by Migne, and found in the English Prayer-book version of the Psalms.

Charitatis ubera.

BOOK SECOND.

FOOTNOTES:

Praefocantur.

The Council of Carthage, September 1, A.D. 256, in which eighty-seven African bishops declared in favour of rebaptizing heretics. The opinions of the bishops are quoted and answered by Augustine, one by one, in Books vi. and vii.

Matt. xvi. 18.

Gal. i. 20.

Gal. ii. 14.

Luke xxiii. 40-43.

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