{"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/1":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nAbundantia peccatorum solet fratres conturbare.\npropter hoc dominus noster uoluit nos praemonere\ncomparans regnum caelorum reticulo misso in mare\ncongreganti multos pisces omne genus hinc et inde.\nquos cum traxissent ad litus, tunc coeperunt separare,\nbonos in uasa miserunt, reliquos malos in mare.\nquisquis nouit euangelium, recognoscat cum timore.\nuidet reticulum ecclesiam, uidet hoc saeculum mare;\ngenus autem mixtum piscis iustus est cum peccatore;\nsaeculi finis est litus: tunc est tempus separare;\nqui modo retia ruperunt, multum dilexerunt mare;\nuasa sunt sedes sanctorum, quo non possunt peruenire.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nThe abundance of sins is wont to trouble the brothers.\nFor this reason our Lord willed to warn us beforehand,\ncomparing the kingdom of heaven to a net cast into the sea,\ngathering many fish of every kind from here and there.\nWhen they had drawn them to the shore, then they began to sort them:\nthe good they put into vessels, the rest, the bad, into the sea.\nWhoever knows the gospel, let him recognize it with fear.\nHe sees that the net is the church, he sees that this world is the sea;\nthe mixed kind of fish is the righteous with the sinner;\nthe world’s end is the shore: then is the time to sort;\nthose who have now broken the nets have loved the sea too much;\nthe vessels are the seats of the saints, where they cannot come.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 1 (CSEL 51:3lines 1–13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/1)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/104":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nIustitiam sequi si uultis, totam causam cogitate.\nquod postea fecit Donatus, factum quare non est ante?\ndissentiebant sacerdotes in tota Africana parte:\nsacerdotes transmarini possent inde iudicare.\nquid cucurristis ad schisma et altare contra altare,\nut, quod postea iudicatum est, iam non possetis audire\net a iudicibus uestris cogeremini appellare,\ndum uultis erroris regnum quoquo modo confirmare?\net nunc et uos totum noscitis, sed fingitis uos nescire,\net cum uos ueritas urget, patres dicitis errasse,\nquasi uos aliquis uetet iam recedere ab errore.\nsed superbia uos ligauit in cathedra pestilentiae.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nIf you wish to follow justice, consider the whole case.\nWhat Donatus did later, why was it not done before?\nThe bishops disagreed throughout the whole region of Africa:\nbishops from overseas could have judged it.\nWhy did you run to schism and altar against altar,\nso that what was judged later you could no longer hear,\nand were forced to appeal from your own judges,\nwhile you wish by any means to establish the reign of error?\nAnd now you too know the whole of it, but pretend not to know,\nand when the truth presses you, you say your fathers erred,\nas if anyone forbade you now to withdraw from error.\nBut pride has bound you in the seat of pestilence.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 104 (CSEL 51:7lines 104–116; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/104)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/117":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nKaritatem Christi qui habet, pacem non potest odisse.\nuel uos iam, populi, audite et nobiscum concordate,\nqui non tenetis cathedram, pro qua pugnetis iniuste.\nsi modo episcopi uestri ex una aliqua regione\nhaberent inter se litem, quos uelletis iudicare\nnisi alterarum regionum qui non essent de ipsa lite?\nsed cum discussissent causam, pronuntiarent pro una parte,\nnumquam communicaretis qui illis nollent consentire.\nquare ergo communicastis istis, qui hoc fecerunt ante?\nnam et ipsi non consenserunt transmarinorum sententiae,\nqui pro nobis iudicarunt; nam nobis iunguntur hodie.\nsi iudex Christus hoc dicat, quid habetis respondere?","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nWhoever has the love of Christ cannot hate peace.\nYou at least, O peoples, listen now and agree with us,\nyou who do not hold a bishop’s chair for which to fight unjustly.\nIf now your bishops from some one region\nhad a dispute among themselves, whom would you want to judge\nexcept men of other regions who were not part of the dispute?\nBut when these had examined the case and pronounced for one side,\nyou would never communicate with those who refused to agree with them.\nWhy then did you communicate with these men, who did this before?\nFor they too did not agree with the verdict of the overseas bishops,\nwho judged in our favour; for they are joined to us today.\nIf Christ the judge says this, what have you to answer?","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 117 (CSEL 51:8lines 117–129; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/117)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/130":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nLumen cordis si est in uobis, uerum potestis uidere.\nsunt preces Donati et acta, quibus quod dictum est probate.\nquae si credere non uultis, uos huc aliqua proferte.\nquibus si et nos non credimus, erit rixa sine fine.\namplectamur ergo pacem. quid ad nos quod gestum est ante?\nobicitis traditionem: respondemus uos fecisse.\nclamatis uos de Macario: et nos de circumcellione.\nillud nostrum iam transactum: uestri non cessant usque hodie.\nhabet paleas area nostra: uos hoc solum uultis esse;\nuos enim non uultis pacem. illi minantur de fuste:\net utinam minarentur et non tunderent cotidie.\nhos si expellunt isti uestri, non habent per quos regnare.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nIf the light of the heart is in you, you can see the truth.\nThere are the petitions of Donatus and the proceedings: by them prove what has been said.\nIf you do not wish to believe these, produce something here yourselves.\nIf we too do not believe those, there will be a quarrel without end.\nLet us therefore embrace peace. What is it to us what was done before?\nYou charge the handing over: we answer that you did it.\nYou cry out about Macarius: and we about the circumcellion.\nThat of ours is already past: yours do not stop even today.\nOur threshing floor has chaff: you want it to be this alone;\nfor you do not want peace. Those men threaten with the club:\nand would that they only threatened and did not beat every day.\nIf these of yours drive them out, they have no one through whom to reign.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 130 (CSEL 51:8lines 130–142–9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/130)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/14":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nBonus auditor fortasse quaerit, qui ruperint rete.\nhomines multum superbi, qui iustos se dicunt esse.\nsic fecerunt (et) scissuram et altare contra altare.\ndiabolo se tradiderunt, cum pugnant de traditione\net crimen quod commiserunt in alios uolunt transferre.\nipsi tradiderunt libros et nos audent accusare,\nut peius committant scelus quam commiserunt et ante.\nqui possent causam librorum excusare de timore,\nquia Petrus Christum negauit, dum terreretur de morte,\nmodo quo pacto excusabunt factum altare contra altare\net pace Christi conscissa spem reponunt in homine?\nquod persecutio non fecit, ipsi fecerunt in pace.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nA good listener perhaps asks who broke the net.\nMen very proud, who say that they are righteous.\nSo they made both a split and altar against altar.\nThey handed themselves over to the devil when they fight about the handing over,\nand the crime that they committed they want to transfer onto others.\nThey themselves handed over the books, and they dare to accuse us,\nso as to commit a worse crime than they committed even before.\nThose who could have excused the matter of the books as done from fear,\nsince Peter denied Christ while he was terrified of death,\nnow, how will they excuse the setting up of altar against altar,\nand, with Christ’s peace torn apart, putting their hope in a man?\nWhat persecution did not do, they themselves did in peace.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 14 (CSEL 51:3lines 14–26–4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/14)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/143":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nModum si excessit Macarius conscriptum in christiana lege,\nuel legem regis referebat, ut pugnaret pro unitate.\nnon dico istum nil peccasse, sed uestros peiores esse.\nquis enim praecepit illis per Africam sic saeuire?\nnon Christus, non imperator haec probatur permisisse,\nfustes et ignes priuatos et insaniam sine lege.\nquia scriptum est: reconde gladium, scelus non putant in fuste,\nnon ut homo moriatur, sed ut conquassetur ualde\net postea moriatur inde, iam cruciatus languore.\nsed tamen si miserentur, occidunt et uno fuste.\nfustes Israheles uocant, quod dixerunt cum honore,\nut plus uastent ipsum nomen quam corpus quod caedunt inde.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nIf Macarius exceeded the measure written in the Christian law,\nat least he was carrying out the law of the king, so as to fight for unity.\nI do not say that he sinned in nothing, but that yours are worse.\nFor who commanded them to rage like this throughout Africa?\nNot Christ, not the emperor, is shown to have permitted these things,\nprivate clubs and fires and madness without law.\nBecause it is written, ‘Put back your sword’, they do not think it a crime with a club,\nnot so that a man dies, but so that he is badly battered\nand afterwards dies of it, already tortured by weakness.\nBut yet if they take pity, they kill even with one blow of the club.\nThey call the clubs ‘Israels’, which they said as an honour,\nso that they lay waste the name itself more than the body they beat with them.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 143 (CSEL 51:9lines 143–155; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/143)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/156":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nNolite nobis iam, fratres, tempus Macarii imputare.\nsi crudeles erant illi, et nobis displicent ualde;\nsi autem falsa de illis dicunt, deus potest iudicare.\nnos amemus pacem Christi, gaudeamus in unitate.\nsi qui sunt mali in ecclesia, nil nobis possunt nocere.\nsi non possunt nobiscum esse, excludantur salua pace.\nsi non poterunt excludi, excludantur uel de corde.\ndixit Ezechiel sanctus quosdam consignatos esse,\nqui gemunt peccata fratrum et non se separant inde.\nsic nos propter malos fratres non separemur a matre,\nquod tunc impii fecerunt extra leuantes altare,\nut peiores nunc haberent quam quos se fingunt fugisse.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nDo not, brothers, charge us any more with the time of Macarius.\nIf those men were cruel, they greatly displease us too;\nbut if they tell lies about them, God can judge.\nLet us love the peace of Christ, let us rejoice in unity.\nIf there are bad men in the church, they can do us no harm.\nIf they cannot be with us, let them be excluded, peace being kept.\nIf they cannot be excluded, let them be excluded at least from the heart.\nHoly Ezekiel said that certain men were sealed,\nwho groan over the sins of their brothers and do not separate themselves from them.\nSo let us not be separated from our mother on account of bad brothers,\nas impious men did then, raising an altar outside,\nso that they now have worse men than those they pretend to have fled.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 156 (CSEL 51:9lines 156–168–10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/156)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/169":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nOmnis qui scripturas legit nouit quod uolo aperire.\nIohannes Baptista dixit tunc ad Iudaeos aperte,\nquod illos tamquam aream suam posset Christus uentilare.\nmisit in messem operarios discipulos praedicare,\nper quos area collecta est et uentilata de cruce.\ntunc iusti tamquam frumentum ecclesias implerunt caste\nuendentes quae possidebant et mundo dicentes uale.\nilli tamquam semen erant, quod toto dispersum est orbe,\nut alia surgeret messis, quae uentilanda est in fine.\nhaec crescit inter zizania, quia sunt haereses ubique;\nhuius palea sunt iniusti, qui non sunt in unitate.\nex quibus si erat Macarius, nos quid uis rebaptizare?","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nEveryone who reads the Scriptures knows what I wish to open up.\nJohn the Baptist said then plainly to the Jews\nthat Christ could winnow them as his threshing floor.\nHe sent workers into the harvest, the disciples, to preach;\nthrough them the threshing floor was gathered and winnowed by the cross.\nThen the righteous, like the wheat, filled the churches chastely,\nselling what they possessed and saying farewell to the world.\nThey were like seed, which has been scattered through the whole world,\nso that another harvest might rise, which is to be winnowed at the end.\nThis grows among the weeds, because there are heresies everywhere;\nits chaff are the unrighteous, who are not in unity.\nIf Macarius was one of these, why do you want to rebaptize us?","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 169 (CSEL 51:10lines 169–181; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/169)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/182":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nPone in corde areas duas, ut possis quod dico uidere.\ncerte et priores habebant sanctos, sicut ostendunt scripturae.\nnam et septem milia uirorum deus se dixit reliquisse,\net sacerdotes et reges multi iusti sunt in lege.\nibi habes tantos prophetas, habes multos et de plebe.\ndic mihi quis tunc iustorum separauit sibi altare.\nmulta scelera admittebat iniquus populus ille,\nidolis sacrificatum est, tot occisi sunt prophetae\net nemo tamen iustorum recessit ab unitate.\niusti iniustos sufferebant uenturo uentilatore,\nuno templo miscebantur, sed mixti non erant corde,\ndicebant in illos tanta et unum habebant altare.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nPicture two threshing floors in your heart, so that you can see what I say.\nCertainly the former people too had saints, as the Scriptures show.\nFor God said that he had left seven thousand men,\nand in the law many priests and kings are righteous.\nThere you have so many prophets, you have many also from the common people.\nTell me which of the righteous then set up an altar apart for himself.\nThat unrighteous people committed many crimes:\nsacrifice was made to idols, so many prophets were killed,\nand yet none of the righteous withdrew from unity.\nThe righteous bore with the unrighteous until the winnower should come;\nthey were mingled in one temple, but they were not mingled in heart;\nthey said such things against them and had one altar.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 182 (CSEL 51:10lines 182–194–11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/182)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/195":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nQuid uobis ad haec uidetur? secunda messis ecclesiae,\nquae per totum orbem crescit, plura debet sustinere:\nhabet [et]iam domini exemplum et in Iuda traditore.\nhunc inter bonos ferebat, hunc misit et praedicare.\nmalus seruus praedicabat, sed Christus erat in fide,\nquia qui iudici credebant non curabant de praecone.\nquando dedit sanctam cenam, nec tunc illum exclusit inde,\net posset per illum tradi, etiam si inde exisset ante.\nsed nobis exemplum datum est malos fratres tolerare,\nut, cum non possunt excludi, solo separemur corde.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nWhat do you think of this? The second harvest, that of the church,\nwhich grows through the whole world, must bear more:\nit has already the Lord’s example in Judas the traitor.\nHim he bore among the good, him he also sent to preach.\nA bad servant was preaching, but Christ was in the faith,\nbecause those who believed the judge did not care about the herald.\nWhen he gave the holy supper, not even then did he exclude him from it,\nand he could have been betrayed through him even if Judas had gone out from there before.\nBut to us an example was given to tolerate bad brothers,\nso that, when they cannot be excluded, we are separated only by the heart.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 195 (CSEL 51:11lines 195–205; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/195)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/206":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nRogo, respondete nobis, quid uultis rebaptizare.\nlapsos sacerdotes uestros pellitis a communione\net nemo tamen post illos ausus est rebaptizare\net quoscumque baptizarunt uobis communicant hodie.\nquid ab eis acceperunt, si non habebant quid dare?\nlegite quomodo adulteri puniantur in sancta lege;\nnon enim dicere possunt, quia peccarunt a timore.\nsi sancti soli baptizant, post istos rebaptizate.\nquid calumniamini nobis, quia sumus in unitate,\nqui nondum eramus nati in illa persecutione?\nscriptum est peccata patrum ad filios non pertinere,\nsed nemo dat fructum bonum, si praecisus est de uite.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nI ask you, answer us: why do you want to rebaptize?\nYou drive your fallen bishops from communion,\nand yet no one after them has dared to rebaptize,\nand all whom they baptized are in communion with you today.\nWhat did they receive from them, if those had nothing to give?\nRead how adulterers are punished in the holy law;\nfor they cannot say that they sinned from fear.\nIf only the holy baptize, rebaptize after these men.\nWhy do you slander us because we are in unity,\nwe who were not yet born in that persecution?\nIt is written that the sins of the fathers do not pertain to the sons,\nbut no one bears good fruit if he is cut off from the vine.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 206 (CSEL 51:11lines 206–218–12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/206)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/219":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nScitis catholica quid sit et quid sit praecisum a uite.\nsi qui sunt inter uos cauti, ueniant, uiuant in radice;\nantequam nimis arescant, iam liberentur ab igne.\nideo non rebaptizamus, quod unum signum est in fide,\nnon quia uos sanctos uidemus, sed solam formam tenere,\nquia ipsam formam habet sarmentum, quod praecisum est de uite.\nsed quid illi prodest forma, si non uiuit de radice?\nuenite, fratres, si uultis, ut inseramini in uite.\ndolor est cum uos uidemus praecisos ita iacere.\nnumerate sacerdotes uel ab ipsa Petri sede\net in ordine illo patrum quis cui successit uidete:\nipsa est petra quam non uincunt superbae inferorum portae.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nYou know what the Catholic is, and what is cut off from the vine.\nIf there are any prudent among you, let them come, let them live in the root;\nbefore they dry up too much, let them now be freed from the fire.\nWe do not rebaptize for this reason, that there is one sign in the faith,\nnot because we see that you are holy, but that you hold only the form;\nfor the branch that is cut off from the vine has the very form.\nBut what does the form profit it, if it does not live from the root?\nCome, brothers, if you are willing, that you may be grafted into the vine.\nIt is a grief when we see you lying so, cut off.\nCount the bishops even from the very see of Peter,\nand in that order of fathers see who succeeded whom:\nthat is the rock which the proud gates of the underworld do not conquer.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 219 (CSEL 51:12lines 219–231; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/219)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/232":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nTalis si quis ad te ueniat plenus catholica fide,\nquales illos sanctos uiros omnes solemus audire,\net si tibi dicat: 'frater, quid me uis rebaptizare?\nquid sit ante factum nescio, nunc autem sum in Christi fide.\nsi me maculat quod nescio, tu qualis sis nunc ostende:\nuultus tuos ecce attendo, ignoro quid sit in corde.\nsi me maculat quod nescio, tu me maculas fortasse,\net si te credo esse sanctum, quibus communicas uide.\nsi maculat quod nescimus, iam non potes sanctus esse,\nquem maculant tot peccata, quae committunt uestri occulte.\nsi autem quod nescis non curas, nec ego quod factum est ante'.\net tamen christianum talem audes ⟨tu⟩ rebaptizare.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nIf someone comes to you like this, full of the Catholic faith,\nsuch as we are accustomed to hear all those holy men were,\nand says to you: ‘Brother, why do you want to rebaptize me?\nWhat was done before I do not know; but now I am in the faith of Christ.\nIf what I do not know stains me, show what sort of man you are now:\nsee, I look at your face; I do not know what is in your heart.\nIf what I do not know stains me, perhaps you stain me,\nand if I believe you are holy, see with whom you communicate.\nIf what we do not know stains, you can no longer be holy,\nyou whom so many sins stain, which your people commit in secret.\nBut if you do not care about what you do not know, neither do I about what was done before.’\nAnd yet you dare to rebaptize such a Christian.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 232 (CSEL 51:12lines 232–244–13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/232)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/245":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nUae qui pro cathedris uestris sic contenditis iniuste.\nclamatis uos solos sanctos, aliud dicitis in corde,\nquia uidetis et uos multos malos abundare ubique.\nnumquid dicere potestis: 'mixti sumus intra rete'?\nrespondetur enim uobis iam uos illud disrupisse.\nneque dicere potestis paleas uos sustinere;\niterum enim respondemus: hoc fecissetis et ante.\nnon enim peiores erant illo Iuda traditore,\ncum quo apostoli acceperunt primum sacramentum cenae,\ncum tanti sceleris reum inter se iam scirent esse;\nnec tamen hos inquinabant sordes in alieno corde.\net tamen christianos fratres audetis rebaptizare.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nWoe to you who strive so unjustly for your bishops’ chairs.\nYou cry out that you alone are holy; you say something else in your heart,\nbecause you see that among you too many bad men abound everywhere.\nCan you say, ‘We are mixed within the net’?\nFor the answer to you is that you have already broken it.\nNor can you say that you bear with the chaff;\nfor again we answer: you should have done this before as well.\nFor those men were not worse than Judas the traitor,\nwith whom the apostles received the first sacrament of the supper,\nwhen they already knew that one guilty of so great a crime was among them;\nand yet the filth in another’s heart did not defile them.\nAnd yet you dare to rebaptize Christian brothers.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 245 (CSEL 51:13lines 245–257; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/245)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/258":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nAudite, fratres, quod dico, et mihi irasci nolite.\nquia non sunt falsa quae auditis, potestis et considerare.\nquid si ipsa mater ecclesia uos alloquatur cum pace\net dicat: 'o filii mei, quid querimini de matre?\nquare me deseruistis, iam uolo a uobis audire.\naccusatis fratres uestros et ego laceror ualde.\nquando me premebant gentes, multa tuli cum dolore.\nmulti me deseruerunt, sed fecerunt in timore;\nuos uero nullus coegit sic contra me rebellare.\ndicitis mecum uos esse, sed falsum uidetis esse:\nego catholica dicor et uos de Donati parte.\niussit me apostolus pro regibus mundi orare;\nuos inuidetis, quod reges iam sunt in christiana fide.\nsi filii estis, quid inuidetis, quia auditae sunt preces meae?\nquando enim dona miserunt, noluistis acceptare\net obliti estis prophetas, qui illud praedixerunt ante,\nquod gentium reges magni missuri essent dona ecclesiae.\nquae dona cum respuistis, ostendistis uos non esse\net Macarium coegistis suum dolorem uindicare.\nsed ego quid uobis feci, uestra mater in toto orbe?\nexpello malos quos possum, quos non possum cogor ferre;\nfero illos, donec sanentur aut separentur in fine.\nuos me quare dimisistis et crucior de uestra morte?\nsi multum malos odistis, quales habetis uidete.\nsi et uos toleratis malos, quare non in unitate,\nubi nemo rebaptizat nec altare est contra altare?\nmalos tantos toleratis, sed nulla bona mercede,\nquia, quod debetis pro Christo, pro Donato uultis ferre'.\ncantauimus uobis, fratres, pacem, si uultis audire.\nuenturus est iudex noster: nos damus, exigit ille.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nListen, brothers, to what I say, and do not be angry with me.\nBecause what you hear is not false, you can also consider it.\nWhat if mother church herself should address you in peace\nand say: ‘O my sons, why do you complain of your mother?\nWhy have you deserted me? I want to hear it from you now.\nYou accuse your brothers, and I am greatly torn.\nWhen the nations pressed me hard, I bore much with grief.\nMany deserted me, but they did it in fear;\nbut no one forced you to rebel against me like this.\nYou say you are with me, but you see that it is false.\nI am called Catholic, and you are of the party of Donatus.\nThe apostle commanded me to pray for the kings of the world;\nyou are envious that the kings are now in the Christian faith.\nIf you are sons, why are you envious that my prayers have been heard?\nFor when they sent gifts, you refused to accept them,\nand you forgot the prophets, who foretold long before\nthat great kings of the nations would send gifts to the church.\nWhen you spurned those gifts, you showed that you are not my sons,\nand you forced Macarius to avenge his grief.\nBut what have I done to you, I, your mother throughout the whole world?\nI expel the bad whom I can; those I cannot I am compelled to bear;\nI bear them until they are healed or are separated at the end.\nWhy have you abandoned me, so that I am tormented by your death?\nIf you hate the bad so much, see what sort you have.\nIf you too tolerate the bad, why not in unity,\nwhere no one rebaptizes and there is no altar against altar?\nYou tolerate such bad men, but for no good reward,\nbecause what you ought to bear for Christ, you choose to bear for Donatus.’\nWe have sung peace to you, brothers, if you are willing to hear.\nOur judge is coming: we give, he will exact.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 258 (CSEL 51:14lines 258–288–15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/258)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/27":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nCustos noster, deus magne, tu nos potes liberare\na pseudoprophetis istis, qui nos quaerunt deuorare.\nmaledictum cor lupinum contegunt ouina pelle.\nnomen iusti ouina pellis, schisma est in lupino corde.\nqui non nouerunt scripturas, hos solent circumuenire;\naudiunt enim 'traditores' et nesciunt quid gestum est ante.\nquibus si dicam: 'probate', non habent quid respondere.\nsuis se dicunt credidisse: dico ego mentitos esse;\nquia et nos credidimus nostris, qui eos dicunt tradidisse.\nuis nosse qui dicant falsum? qui non sunt in unitate.\nolim iam causa finita est, quod uos non statis in pace.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nOur guardian, great God, you can deliver us\nfrom these false prophets, who seek to devour us.\nThey cover an accursed wolfish heart with a sheep’s skin.\nThe name of the righteous is the sheep’s skin; schism is in the wolfish heart.\nThose who do not know the Scriptures they are wont to deceive;\nfor they hear ‘traitors’ and do not know what was done before.\nIf I say to them, ‘Prove it’, they have nothing to answer.\nThey say they believed their own people: I say those lied;\nfor we too believed our own, who say that they handed over.\nDo you want to know who speak falsely? Those who are not in unity.\nThe case was closed long ago; the trouble is that you do not stand in peace.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 27 (CSEL 51:4lines 27–38; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/27)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/39":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nDixerunt maiores nostri et libros fecerunt inde,\nqui tunc causam cognouerunt, quo recens possent probare:\nerant quidam traditores librorum de sancta lege\nepiscopi de Numidia et non quilibet de plebe.\ncum Carthaginem uenissent episcopum ordinare,\ninuenerunt Caecilianum iam ordinatum in sua sede.\nirati sunt, quia ipsi non potuerunt ordinare.\nerant Botrus et Caelestius hostes Caeciliano ualde,\nimpii fures superbi, de quibus longum est referre.\niunxerunt se simul omnes crimen in illum conflare,\ndicunt ordinatorem eius sanctos libros tradidisse.\nsic pacis retia ruperunt et errant modo per mare.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nOur forebears spoke, and wrote books about it,\nthey who heard the case then, when they could prove it while it was fresh:\nthere were certain traitors of the books of the holy law,\nbishops from Numidia, and not just anyone from the common people.\nWhen they had come to Carthage to ordain a bishop,\nthey found Caecilian already ordained in his own see.\nThey were angry because they themselves had not been able to ordain.\nThere were Botrus and Caelestius, bitter enemies of Caecilian,\nimpious, thieves, proud, of whom it would be long to tell.\nThey all joined together to stir up a charge against him;\nthey say that his ordainer had handed over the holy books.\nSo they broke the nets of peace and now wander through the sea.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 39 (CSEL 51:4lines 39–51–5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/39)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/52":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nEcce quam bonum et iocundum fratres in unum habitare!\naudite uocem prophetae, ut sitis in unitate.\ncrimen nobis quis probauit antiquum de traditione?\nquis obiecit in iudicio? qui sederunt iudicare?\nquibus testibus conuicit, quis ausus est affirmare?\nsed hoc libenter finxerunt, quod se nouerant fecisse.\nquia fama iam loquebatur de librorum traditione,\nsed qui fecerant latebant in illa perturbatione,\ninde alios infamarunt, ut se ipsos possent celare.\nper illos ceteri errarunt principes ex ipsa parte,\nquia non credere collegis putauerunt sibi turpe.\niam, fratres, finiatur error et simus in unitate.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nBehold how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell in one!\nHear the voice of the prophet, so that you may be in unity.\nWho has proved against us the old crime of handing over?\nWho charged it in a court? Who sat to judge?\nBy what witnesses did he convict? Who dared to affirm it?\nBut this they gladly invented, because they knew they had done it themselves.\nFor rumour was already talking about the handing over of the books,\nbut those who had done it were hidden in that confusion;\nso they defamed others, in order to conceal themselves.\nThrough them the other leaders of that same party went astray,\nbecause they thought it shameful not to believe their colleagues.\nNow, brothers, let the error be ended, and let us be in unity.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 52 (CSEL 51:5lines 52–64; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/52)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/65":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nFecerunt quod uoluerunt tunc in illa caecitate.\nnon iudices consederunt, non sacerdotes de more,\nquo solent in magnis causis congregati iudicare,\nnon accusator et reus steterunt in quaestione,\nnon testis, non documentum, quo possent crimen probare,\nsed furor dolus tumultus, qui regnant in falsitate.\nproferantur nobis gesta, quae in concilio solent esse,\nuideamus quae res coegit fieri altare contra altare.\nsi malus erat sacerdos, deponendus erat ante,\nsi non poterat deponi, tolerandus intra rete,\nsicut modo toleratis tam multos malos aperte,\net qui fertis pio furore, ferretis unum pro pace.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nThey did what they wanted then, in that blindness.\nNo judges sat together, no bishops according to custom,\nas they are wont to assemble and judge in great cases;\nno accuser and defendant stood in the inquiry,\nno witness, no document by which they could prove the crime,\nbut rage, deceit, uproar, which reign in falsehood.\nLet the proceedings be produced for us, which are usually kept in a council;\nlet us see what thing forced altar to be set against altar.\nIf the bishop was bad, he should have been deposed first;\nif he could not be deposed, he should have been tolerated within the net,\njust as you now openly tolerate so many bad men;\nand you who bear them with pious rage would have borne one for the sake of peace.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 65 (CSEL 51:5lines 65–77–6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/65)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/78":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nGaudium magnum esset nobis, si tunc nolletis errare;\nsed si tunc non uisum est uerum, uel nunc experti uidete.\nmultos nunc habetis prauos, qui uobis displicent ualde,\nnec tamen hos separatis a uestra communione.\nnon dico de illis peccatis, quae potestis et negare:\nfustes ignes mortes dico, quae committunt uestri in luce,\net tamen suffertis illos uel errore uel timore.\nquantum erat, ferrent unum patres uestri pro unitate,\nsi tantus erat tumultus, ut non possent degradare.\nadde quod innocens erat et nil poterant probare.\nsed ne crimen quaereretur, ubi se uidebant esse,\nfinxerunt se nimis iustos, cum totum uellent turbare.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nIt would be a great joy to us if you had not been willing to go astray then;\nbut if the truth was not seen then, at least now, having learned by experience, see it.\nYou now have many crooked men who greatly displease you,\nand yet you do not separate them from your communion.\nI do not speak of those sins which you can even deny:\nclubs, fires, deaths, I mean, which your people commit in broad daylight,\nand yet you put up with them, from error or from fear.\nHow small a thing it would have been for your fathers to bear one man for unity,\nif the uproar was so great that they could not degrade him.\nAdd that he was innocent, and they could prove nothing.\nBut so that the crime should not be looked for where they saw it lay,\nthey made themselves out to be exceedingly righteous, since they wanted to throw everything into confusion.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 78 (CSEL 51:6lines 78–90; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/78)."},"augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/91":{"o":"Omnes qui gaudetis de pace, modo uerum iudicate.\nHonores uanos qui quaerit, non uult cum Christo regnare,\nsicut princeps huius mali, de cuius uocantur parte.\nnam Donatus tunc uolebat Africam totam obtinere;\ntunc iudices transmarinos petiit ab imperatore.\nsed haec tam iusta petitio non erat de caritate.\nhoc ipsa ueritas clamat, quam uolo modo referre.\nnam consensit imperator, misit qui sederent Romae\nsacerdotes, qui tunc possent Caecilianum cum illo audire.\ndicta causa est, nil probatum est: ausus est et appellare\net post collegarum sedem audiri ab imperatore.\nhinc petitio illa probatur non esse de caritate.\ndeinde ubique uictus coepit christianos rebaptizare.","t":"All you who rejoice in peace, now judge what is true.\nWhoever seeks empty honours does not want to reign with Christ,\nlike the leader of this evil, from whose party they are named.\nFor Donatus then wanted to hold all Africa;\nthen he asked the emperor for judges from overseas.\nBut this so righteous petition did not come from love.\nThe truth itself cries this out, which I now wish to relate.\nFor the emperor consented and sent men to sit at Rome,\nbishops who could then hear Caecilian with him.\nThe case was pleaded, nothing was proved: he dared even to appeal,\nand after the court of his colleagues to be heard by the emperor.\nFrom this it is proved that that petition was not from love.\nThen, beaten everywhere, he began to rebaptize Christians.","f":"Augustine, <i>Ps. c. Don.</i> 91 (CSEL 51:6lines 91–103–7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/augustine-psalmus-contra-partem-donati/91)."}}