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

xv. 5.

223

Eph. v. 5.

224

Matt. xiii. 29.

225

Phil. i. 15-18.

226

Wisd. ii. 24, 25.

227

Matt. xiii. 28, 25.

228

Matt. xiii. 23; Luke viii. 15.

229

Rev. ii. 6.

230

Acts viii. 9-24.

231

Phil. ii. 21.

232

1 Cor. xiii. 5.

233

Eph. v. 27; Retract. ii. 18.

234

Song of Sol. vi. 8.

235

Cypr. Ep. xi. sec. 1.

236

Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 12.

237

Luke ix. 49, 50.

238

Matt. xii. 30.

239

Gal. ii. 14.

240

Phil. iii. 15.

241

Matt. xxiii. 2, 3.

242

Phil. i. 18; see on ch. vii. 10.

243

John i. 33.

244

Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 13; 2 Tim. ii. 17.

245

1 Cor. xv. 32, 33, 12.

246

Eph. v. 5.

247

2 Tim. ii. 20.

248

Ps. ii. 9.

249

Cypr. Ep. lv. sec. 21.

250

2 Tim. ii. 17-20.

251

Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 13.

252

Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 13; 2 Cor. vi. 14.

253

Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 13; 2 Cor. vi. 14.

254

1 John ii. 9.

255

Phil. i. 15, 16.

256

Cypr. l. c.

257

Cypr. Ep. xi. sec. 1.

258

Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 13.

259

Matt. vii. 23.

260

Matt. xxv. 41.

261

Rom. ii. 4.

262

Ps. lxxxix. 32, 33.

263

Ecclus. xxx. 23. The words "placentes Deo" are derived from the Latin version only.

264

Matt. xxiv. 13.

265

From a letter of Pope Stephen's, quoted Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 14.

266

Matt. xiii. 21.

267

2 Tim. ii. 21.

268

2 Tim. ii. 19.

269

Matt. vii. 23.

270

Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 14.

271

Ib. de Laps. sec. 4.

272

Ib. Ep. xi. sec. 1.

273

Ib. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 14.

274

1 Cor. ii. 14.

275

1 Cor. iii. 3.

276

2 Cor. iv. 16.

277

Photinus, bishop of Sirmium, was condemned and deposed by a synod held in his own city, in 351, for teaching that there was no distinction of persons in the Godhead.

278

Hos. ii. 5-7.

279

Cypr. Ep. lxxxiii. sec. 18.

280

1 Cor. xiii. 3.

281

Cypr. l. c.

282

Matt. xii. 30.

283

1 Cor. vi. 10.

284

Gal. v. 19-21.

285

Eph. v. 5, 6.

286

1 Cor. vi. 9, 10.

287

Matt. xi. 24.

288

Matt. xxv. 41.

289

John iii. 5.

290

Another reading, of less authority, is, "Aut catechumeno sacramentum baptismi præferendum putamus." This does not suit the sense of the passage, and probably sprung from want of knowledge of the meaning of the "catechumen's sacrament." It is mentioned in the third Council of Carthage as "the sacrament of salt" (Conc. Carth. 3, can. 5). Augustine (de Peccat. Meritis, ii. c. 26) says that "what the catechumens receive, though it be not the body of Christ, yet is holy, more holy than the food whereby our bodies are sustained, because it is a sacrament." – Cp. de Catech. Rudibus, c. 26. It appears to have been only a taste of salt, given them as the emblem of purity and incorruption. See Bingham, Orig. Eccles. Book x. c. ii. 16.

291

Acts x. 44.

292

Acts viii. 13, 18, 19.

293

Matt. v. 20.

294

Acts x. 4, 5.

295

Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 19.

296

Luke xxiii. 43.

297

In Retract. ii. 18, Augustine expresses a doubt whether the thief may not have been baptized.

298

Rom. x. 10.

299

Matt. iii 6, 13.

300

Rom. iv. 11, 3.

301

Gen. xvii. 9-14.

302

Ex. iv. 24.

303

John ix. 21.

304

Acts xix. 3-5.

305

Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. ad Jubaian. sec. 20.

306

See below, Book VII. c. ii.

307

Phil. iii. 15.

308

Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 21.

309

1 Tim. i. 8.

310

John xiii. 27.

311

1 Cor. xi. 29.

312

1 Tim. i. 5.

313

Cypr. Ep. lxxiii. sec. 21; Acts xix. 3-5.

314

John iii. 27.

315

John i. 16.

316

John xiii. 4, 5.

317

Matt.