Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy. Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

22

1 Cor. xiii. 1, 2.

23

John xi. 51.

24

1 Sam. xviii. 10.

25

Acts viii. 13.

26

Mark i. 24.

27

Eph. iv. 2, 3.

28

Acts viii. 13, 21.

29

1 Cor. iii. 1-4.

30

1 Cor. i. 10-13.

31

1 Cor. x. 11. In figura; :τυπιχως; A. V., "for ensamples."

32

Gen. xxi. 10.

33

Gen. xxx. 3.

34

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

35

Matt. xxviii. 19.

36

John xx. 23.

37

Song of Sol. vi. 9.

38

1 John ii. 11.

39

Gal. iii. 27.

40

Wisd. i. 5.

41

Debebat. It is necessary to depart from the A. V., "owed," as Augustine founds an argument on the use of the imperfect tense. Gr. ωφειλεν.

42

Matt. xviii. 23-35.

43

1 Cor. xv. 46.

44

1 Cor. ii. 14.

45

Gal. iv.

46

Ps. cxxxix. 16.

47

So Augustine from the Septuagint: επι βιβλιο σου παντις γραφησονται. A.V., "In Thy book were all my members written."

48

Non caste; ουχ αγνως. Phil. i. 16.

49

In the Retractations, ii. 18, Augustine notes on this passage, that wherever he uses this quotation from the Epistle to the Ephesians, he means it to be understood of the progress of the Church towards this condition, and not of her success in its attainment; for at present the infirmities and ignorance of her members give ground enough for the whole Church joining daily in the petition, "Forgive us our debts."

50

Gen. xv. 10.

51

1 Pet. iv. 8.

52

See below, ii. 9.

53

Eph. iv. 2, 3.

54

Ps. lxxiii. 18.

55

1 Cor. xii. 31, xiii. 1.

56

John xv. 1, 2.

57

John xiii. 34.

58

Gal. v. 22, 23.

59

Botrum.

60

John xv. 2.

61

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.

62

Charitatis ubera.

63

Præfocantur.

64

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.

65

Matt. xvi. 18.

66

Cypr. Ep. lxxi.

67

Gal. i. 20.

68

Gal. ii. 14.

69

Luke xxiii. 40-43.

70

Matt. xxvi. 69-75.

71

That is, the proconsular province of Africa, or Africa Zeugitana, answering to the northern part of the territory of Tunis.

72

See above, c. i. 2.

73

Bede asserts that this was the case, Book viii. qu. 5.

74

See above, c. ii. 3.

75

Matt. xxii. 30.

76

1 Cor. x. 13.

77

Phil. iii. 15.

78

Rom. iii. 17; see on i. 19, 29.

79

Phil. iii. 16.

80

1 Cor. xiii. 3.

81

Eph. iv. 3.

82

Traditores sanctorum librorum.

83

Ex. xxxii.

84

Jer. xxxvi.

85

Num. xvi.

86

Non convicti sed conficti traditores.

87

Rom. xiv. 4.

88

Ps. lviii. 1; though slightly varied from the LXX.: si vere justitiam diligitis; for ει αληθως αρα δικαιοσυνην λαλειτε

89

John vii. 24.

90

Matt. vii. 15.

91

1 Cor. xiv. 29, 30.

92

Cypr. Ep. lxxi.

93

The former Council of Carthage was held by Agrippinus early in the third century, the ordinary date given being 215 A.D.

94

Tanquam lectulo auctoritatis.

95

Cypr. Ep. lxxi.

96

The general Council, on whose authority Augustine relies in many places in this work, was either that of Arles, in 314 A.D., or of Nicæa, in 325 A.D., both of them being before his birth, in 354 A.D. He quotes the decision of the same council, contra Parmenianum, ii. 13, 30; de Hœresibus, 69; Ep. xliii. 7, 19. Migne brings forward the following passages in favour of its being the Council of Arles to which Augustine refers, since in them he ascribes the decision of the controversy to "the authority of the whole world." Contra Parmenianum, iii. 4, 21: "They condemned," he says, "some few in Africa, by whom they were in turn vanquished by the judgment of the whole world;" and he adds, that "the Catholics trusted ecclesiastical judges like these in preference to the defeated parties in the suit." Ib. 6, 30: He says that the Donatists, "having made a schism in the unity of the Church, were refuted, not by the authority of 310 African bishops, but by that of the whole world." And in the sixth chapter of the first book of the same treatise, he says that the Donatists, after the decision at Arles, came again to Constantine, and there were defeated "by a final decision," i. e. at Milan, as is seen from Ep. xliii. 7, 20, in the year 316 A.D.

97

See above, ch. ii. 3.

98

See above, ch. ii. 3.

99

Rom. xiv. 4.

100

Wisd. xii. 10.

101

Ps. ciii.

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