Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy

972

Nam nemo vivit invitus; et tamen puer ut hoc volens discat, invitus vapulat. Perhaps a better reading is, "Nam nemo vult invitus; et tamen puer ut volens discat," etc., leaving out "hoc," which is wanting in the Fleury MSS.: "No one wishes against his will; and yet a boy, wishing to learn, is beaten against his will."

973

Gal. vi. 5.

974

Luke xxiv. 47.

975

Ps. cxviii. 8, 9.

976

Acts xxiii. 12-33.

977

Acts i. 8.

978

Matt. xvi. 26.

979

1 Pet. ii. 20.

980

Matt. v. 3.

981

2 Cor. vi. 10.

982

Matt. xvi. 25.

983

Matt. xix. 29.

984

1 Cor. xiii. 3.

985

Acts i. 8.

986

See above, c. lxxxiii.

987

Matt. x. 28.

988

Ps. lvii. 4.

989

Job xiv., according to the LXX.

990

Ps. li. 7.

991

Ps. cxviii. 8, 9.

992

Jer. xvii. 5.

993

Matt. xxiii. 25.

994

Jer. xv. 15-18, according to the LXX.

995

2 Cor. vii. 5.

996

2 Cor. xi. 29.

997

Rev. xvii. 15.

998

Acts viii. 13.

999

Col. i. 23.

1000

Ps. xciii. 1.

1001

Gildo.

1002

Ps. cxli. 5, from the LXX.

1003

Prov. xxvii. 6, from the LXX.

1004

Ps. cxxxiii.

1005

Compare Tract. 15 in Joannem, n. 27: "Messiah was anointed. The Greek for 'anointed' is 'Christ,' the Hebrew, Messiah; whence also in Phœnician we have 'Messe' for 'anoint.' For these languages, the Hebrew, Phœnician, and Syrian, are closely cognate, as well as geographically bordering on each other." See also Max Müller's Lectures on the Science of Language, series I. p. 267: "The ancient language of Phœnicia, to judge from inscriptions, was most closely allied to Hebrew."

1006

Col. i. 18.

1007

Matt. xix. 21.

1008

Acts iv. 32-35.

1009

Luke xxiv. 47.

1010

Gal. v. 19-21.

1011

Apparently misquoted from 1 Sam. ii. 25.

1012

Col. iv. 2-4.

1013

1 John i. 8.

1014

Dan. vi. 16.

1015

Ezek. xiv. 14.

1016

Dan. ix. 20.

1017

Lev. xvi.; Heb. ix. 7.

1018

Acts xiv. 22.

1019

1 John ii. 1, 2.

1020

1 Tim. iv. 14.

1021

1 Tim. v. 22.

1022

See Rom. i. 32.

1023

Gal. v. 19-21.

1024

Matt. xvi. 18.

1025

Matt. vii. 26.

1026

Ps. lxi. 2, 3.

1027

That the Donatists were called at Rome Montenses, is observed by Augustine, de Hœresibus, c. xxix., and Epist. liii. 2; and before him by Optatus, Book II. That they were also called Cutzupitani, or Cutzupitæ, we learn from the same epistle, and from his treatise de Unitate Ecclesæ, c. iii.

1028

Lucilla.

1029

Possidius, in the third chapter of his Indiculus, designates this third book as "One book against the second letter of the same."

1030

Ps. lii. 3.

1031

Ps. lxxxiv. 10.

1032

Nihil enim mihi conscius sum.

1033

1 Cor. iv. 1-6.

1034

1 Cor. iii. 21, 23.

1035

Jas. i. 17.

1036

1 Cor. iv. 7.

1037

1 Cor. iv. 16.

1038

Matt. xxiii. 3.

1039

Jer. xvii. 5.

1040

Matt. iii. 12.

1041

2 Tim. ii. 20.

1042

Matt. xiii. 47, 48.

1043

Matt. xxv. 32, 33.

1044

Matt. xiii. 24-40.

1045

1 Cor. i. 12, 13.

1046

2 Tim. ii. 19.

1047

Ps. xxvii. 14.

1048

1 Thess. v. 14, 15.

1049

2 Cor. xi. 2, 3.

1050

1 Cor. viii. 11.

1051

1 Cor. iii. 7.

1052

1 John iv. 16.

1053

Gal. vi. 4, 5.

1054

Rom. xiv. 12, 13.

1055

Gal. vi. 2, 3.

1056

Eph. iv. 2, 3.

1057

Matt. xii. 30.

1058

Gal. i. 8.

1059

Matt. v. 12.

1060

Cant. i. 3.

1061

Ps. lvii. 11.

1062

1 Cor. i. 30, 31.

1063

Matt. v. 10-12.

1064

Matt. x. 25.

1065

Ps. xxvi. 1.

1066

Ps. lvi. 11.

1067

Ps. xi. 1.

1068

1 Pet. iii. 21.

1069

Matt. xxiii. 2, 3.

1070

Some editors have "unitate," but Amerbach and the MSS., "veritate;" and this is supported by sec. 28 below: "De ecclesiæ vel baptismi veritate;" and sec. 22 of the treatise de Unico Baptismo: "Ambulantibus in ecclesiæ veritate."

1071

Ubi vobis faventibus loquatur, et victus verum simulans statum, talia vel etiam sceleratiora dicat in me. Mihi sat est ad rem, etc. Morel (Elem. Crit. pp. 326-328) suggests as an improvement, "Ubi vobis faventibus loquatur et victus. Verum si millies tantum talia vel etiam sceleratiora dicat in me, mihi sat est," etc., – "on which he may speak amidst applause from you, even when beaten. But if he were to make a thousand times as many statements concerning me," etc.

1072

Eph. vi. 12.

1073

Eph. v. 8.

1074

2 Cor. vi. 7, 8.

1075

Luke vi. 35.

1076

Luke xxiii. 34.

1077

See above, Book I. c. i. sec. 2.

1078

Acts xxiv. 1.

1079

Paracleti.

1080

"Favente," which is wanting in the mss., was inserted in the margin by Erasmus, as being needed to complete the sense.

1081

Megalius, bishop of Calama, primate of Numidia, was the bishop who ordained Augustine, as we find in c. viii. of his life by Possidius. Augustine makes further reply to the same calumny, which was gathered from a letter of Megalius, in Contra Cresconium, Book III. c. lxxx. sec. 92, and Book IV. c. lxiv. secs. 78, 79.

1082

Lente, ut dicitur, et bene. Morel (Element. Crit. pp. 140, 141) suggests as an amendment, "lene," as suiting better with "lente."

1083

See Book I. c. i. secs. 2, 3.

1084

Lactantius, Book V. c. xiv., tells us of the talents of Carneades, recording that when he was sent on an embassy to Rome by the Athenians, he spoke there first in defence of justice, and then on the following day in opposition to it; and that he was in the habit of speaking with such force on either side, as to be able to refute any arguments advanced by anybody else.

1085

Ter. Heaut. IV. iii. 41.

1086

In de Civ. Dei, Book II. c. xxi., Augustine mentions L. Furius Philus, one of the interlocutors in Cicero's Laelus, as maintaining this same view. From the similarity of the name, it has been thought that here Furius and Pilus are only one man.

1087

The MSS. here and below have Protagoras. Both were atheists, according to Cicero, Nat. Deor. I. i. 2, and Lactantius, Book I. c. i.

1088

Ps. xiv. 1.

1089

See Book I. c. ii. sec. 3.

1090

See Book I. c. ii. sec. 3.

1091

Jer. xvii. 5.

1092

1 Cor. iii. 21.

1093

Ps. lxii. 1, 2.

1094

John i. 22.

1095

Matt. iii. 7.

1096

Wisd. i. 5.

1097

1 Tim. iii. 10.

1098

Book I. c. ii. sec. 2.

1099

Wisd. i. 5.

1100

The Council of Carthage, held on 13th September 401, passed a decree in favour of receiving the clergy of the Donatists with full recognition of their orders.

1101

Acts viii. 36.

1102

Jer. xv. 18. See Book II. c. cii. sec. 234, 235.

1103

Rev. xvii. 15.

1104

Ps. cxli. 5. See Book II. c. ciii. sec. 236, 237.

1105

1 John iv. 1.

1106

Matt. xvi. 16.

1107

Matt. viii. 29; Mark i. 24; Luke viii. 28.

1108

Wisd. i. 5.

1109

See Book I. c. x. sec. 11, 12.

1110

1 Cor. iii. 21, and i. 31.

1111

Rom. iv. 5.

1112

That of Bagai.

1113

Gal. vi. 5.

1114

See Possidius' Life of St. Augustine, cc. v. – xi.

1115

See c. xlv. sec. 54.

1116

Rom. iv. 5.

1117

1 Cor. iii. 6, 7.

1118

John xv. 5.

1119

Rom. xii. 5.

1120

Book I. c. v. secs. 6, 7.

1121

Book I. c. vi. secs. 6, 7.

1122

Matt. vii. 17, 16.

1123

Matt. xii. 35.

1124

See Book I. cc. vii. viii. secs. 8, 9.

1125

1 Cor. xv. 13-15.

1126

See Book I. c. vi. sec. 7.

1127

See Book I. c. viii. sec. 9.

1128

Rom. ix. 5.

1129

Acts v. 3, 4.

1130

Matt. xxii. 30.

1131

Rom. iv. 5.

1132

John i. 33.

1133

Eph. v. 25, 26.

1134

Jer. xvii. 5.

1135

Ps. xl. 4.

1136

Matt. xxiii. 3.

1137

Matt. x. 23.

1138

Matt. vii. 17, 16.

1139

Matt. xii. 35.

1140

Ecclus. xxxiv. 25. See Book I. c. ix. sec. 10.

1141

Ps. cxviii. 8.

1142

Jer. xvii. 5.

1143

Ps. iii. 8.

1144

Ps. lx. 11.

1145

1 Cor. iii. 7.

1146

Rom. iv. 5.

1147

Ps. lxxii. 8.

1148

Ps. ii. 8.

1149

Gen. xxii. 18.

1150

Gal. iii. 16.

1151

Matt. xxiii. 3.

1152

1 Cor. i. 13.

1153

See Book I. cc. iii. iv. secs. 4, 5.

1154

1 Cor. iii. 6, 7.

1155

Gal. vi. 3.

1156

Ministri ejus cui credidistis. See 1 Cor. iii. 4, 5.

1157

Acts xv. 9.

1158

Rom. iv. 5.

1159

1 Cor. ix. 17.

1160

John iv. 2.

1161

John xii. 6.

1162

1 Cor. i. 17.

1163

1 Cor. iv. 15.

1164

1 Cor. i. 14.

1165

John iii. 5.

1166

Matt. v. 20.

1167

2 Tim. ii. 8.

1168

Acts xix. 3.

1169

Eph. v. 25, 26.

1170

See Book III. c. Cresconium, cc. xxvii. xxviii. secs. 30, 32.

1171

Matt. vii. 15, 16.

1172

See Book I. cc. xxi. xxii. secs. 23, 24.

1173

In Book II. c. xlviii. of his Retractations, Augustine says: "About the same time" (as that at which he wrote his treatise De Gestis Pelagii, i. e. about the year 417), "I wrote also a treatise De Correctione Donatistarum, for the sake of those who were not willing that the Donatists should be subjected to the correction of the imperial laws. This treatise begins with the words "Laudo, et gratulor, et admiror." This letter in the old editions was No. 50, – the letter which is now No. 4 in the appendix being formerly No. 185."

1174

Ps. xxii. 16-18, 27, 28.

1175

Ps. ii. 7, 8.

1176

Luke xxiv. 46, 47.

1177

John i. 1, 2.

1178

This epistle was produced in the fifth conference of the fifth Synod, when the point was under debate whether Theodorus of Mopsuesta could be condemned after his death.

1179

Ps. cxviii. 8.

1180

Gen. xxvi. 4.

1181

Mal. i. 11.

1182

Ps. lxxii. 8.

1183

Col. i. 6.

1184

Acts i. 8.

1185

In the Councils at Rome and Arles.

1186

This digest will be found in the 9th volume of Migne's edition of Augustine's Works, p. 613, etc.

1187

Dan. vi. 24.

1188

See Gal. vi. 9, 10.

1189

Dan. iii. 5, 29.

1190

Matt. v. 10.

1191

Gen. xvi. 6.

1192

1 Sam. xviii., xix., etc.

1193

Luke xxiii. 33.

1194

Discerne causam meam. The Eng. Vers. has "plead my cause against an ungodly nation."

1195

Ps. xliii. 1.

1196

Ps. cxix. 86.

1197

Gal. iv. 22-31.

1198

Ps. xviii. 37.

1199

Luke iv. 9.

1200

Mark v. 13.

1201

Matt. xvii. 14.

1202

Matt. iii. 12.

1203

Ps. ii. 1, 2, 10, 11.

1204

2 Kings xviii. 4.

1205

2 Kings xxiii. 4, 5.

1206

Jonah iii. 6-9.

1207

Bel and Drag. vv. 22, 42.

1208

Dan. iii. 29.

1209

John xvi. 2.

1210

Ps. lxxii. 11.

1211

Ter. Adelph. I. i. 32, 33.

1212

This is not found in the extant plays of Terence.

1213

1 John iv. 18.

1214

Prov. xxix. 19.

1215

Prov. xxiii. 14.

1216

Prov. xiii. 24.

1217

Ps. xlii. 2.

1218

Phil. i. 23.

1219

John x. 15.

1220

Acts ix. 1-18.

1221

1 Cor. xv. 10.

1222

Accipiant: sc. the baptizer and the baptized; and so the MSS. The common reading is 'accipiat.'

1223

2 Cor. x. 6.

1224

Luke xiv. 22, 23.

1225

1 Cor. i. 22.

1226

That of Carthage, held June 26, 401.

1227

The basilica of Fundus Calvianensis. See C. Crescon. iii. c. 43.

1228

Acts xxiii. 17-32.

1229

Acts xxii. 25.

1230

Acts xxv. 11.

1231

2 Tim. ii. 26.

1232

Ezek. xxxiv. 4.

1233

2 Sam. xviii. xxii.

1234

Cod. Theod. i. 52, de Hæreticis.

1235

1 Cor. iii. 22, 23.

1236

Acts iv. 32.

1237

Ps. cxxxiii. 1.

1238

2 Cor. xii. 14.

1239

Wisd. x. 20.

1240

Prov. xiii. 22.

1241

Rom. iv. 5.

1242

Rom. x. 3.

1243

1 Cor. iv. 7.

1244

Eph. v. 27.

1245

1 Cor. xv. 55, 56.

1246

Wisd. ix. 15.

1247

Matt. vi. 12.

1248

1 John i. 8, 9.

1249

1 Cor. xv. 54.

1250

1 John iii. 9.

1251

1 John i. 8.

1252

Rom. iii. 24.

1253

Wisd. v. 1.

1254

Rom. xii. 3-5.

1255

Luke xv. 32.

1256

Eph. iv. 3.

1257

1 Pet. iv. 8.

1258

1 Cor. xiii. 1-3.

1259

1 Cor. iii. 7.

1260

Pope Innocent I., in his 6th Epistle to Agapitus, Macedonius, and certain other bishops of Apulia, writes to the effect that "canons had been passed at Nicæa, excluding penitents from even the lowest orders of the ministry."

1261

Matt. xvi. 19.

1262

Ps. cxxii. 6: Fiat pax in virtute tua. The English version is, "Peace be within thy walls."

1263

Bishop of Calarita. Comp. De Agone Christiano, c. 30.

1264

The Bishop of Casæ Nigræ.

1265

The Council of Bagai.

1266

Matt. xii. 32.

1267

John xv. 22.

1268

John. xx. 22, 23.

1269

Rom. ii. 4, 5.

1270

1 Cor. xi. 29.

1271

1 Cor. x. 17.

1272

Eph. v. 23.

1273

Rom. v. 5.

1274

Jude 19.

1275

Wisd. i. 5.