Saint Augustine - Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy

Chap. xiii. – 15. For the Lord Jesus might, if He had so thought fit, have given the power of His baptism to some one or more of His chief servants, whom He had already made His friends, such as those to whom He says, "Henceforth I call you not servants, but friends;" 330 330 John xv. 15.

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Aug. De Hœr. c. 69; Enarr. in Ps. 132, secs. 3, 6; C. Cresc. iii. 46, 47; C. Gaudentium i. 32.

Epist. xlix. li.

Vol. ix p. 34, etc.

The other works bearing on this controversy are mentioned in the exhaustive volume of Ferd. Ribbeck, Donatus und Augustinus (Elberfeld, 1858). – Ed.

This treatise was written about 400 A.D.

Contra Epist. Parmen. ii. 14.

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

Ps. lxi. 2, 3. Augustine translates from the Septuagint. The English version is: "From the end of the earth will I cry unto Thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I. For Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy."

Eph. ii. 6.

Matt. vii. 15.

Matt. xxiv. 23.

Matt. xi. 24.

The Council of Donatist bishops, held at Bagai in Numidia, A.D. 394. Cp. Contr. Crescon. iii. 52, 53.

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.

1 Cor. xiii. 2.

1 Cor. xiii. 1, 2.

John xi. 51.

1 Sam. xviii. 10.

Acts viii. 13.

Mark i. 24.

Eph. iv. 2, 3.

Acts viii. 13, 21.

1 Cor. iii. 1-4.

1 Cor. i. 10-13.

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

Gen. xxi. 10.

Gen. xxx. 3.

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

Matt. xxviii. 19.

John xx. 23.

Song of Sol. vi. 9.

1 John ii. 11.

Gal. iii. 27.

Wisd. i. 5.

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 .

Matt. xviii. 23-35.

1 Cor. xv. 46.

1 Cor. ii. 14.

Gal. iv.

Ps. cxxxix. 16.

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

Non caste; ουχ αγνως . Phil. i. 16.

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."

Gen. xv. 10.

1 Pet. iv. 8.

See below, ii. 9.

Eph. iv. 2, 3.

Ps. lxxiii. 18.

1 Cor. xii. 31, xiii. 1.

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.

Præfocantur.

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.

Cypr. Ep. lxxi.

Gal. i. 20.

Gal. ii. 14.

Luke xxiii. 40-43.

Matt. xxvi. 69-75.

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

See above, c. i. 2.

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

See above, c. ii. 3.

Matt. xxii. 30.

1 Cor. x. 13.

Phil. iii. 15.

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

Phil. iii. 16.

1 Cor. xiii. 3.

Eph. iv. 3.

Traditores sanctorum librorum.

Ex. xxxii.

Jer. xxxvi.