2 Bened. Ed. Vol. ix. pp. 7-52. Migne, Vol. ix. pp. 33-108.
3 The other works bearing on this controversy are mentioned in the exhaustive volume of Ferd. Ribbeck, Donatus und Augustinus (Elberfeld, 1858).-Ed.
1 Parmenianus was successor to Donatus the Great in the See of Carthage, circ. 350 A.D., and died circ. 392 A.D.
2 Tichonius, who flourished circ. 380, was the leader of a reformatory movement in Donatism, which Parmenianus opposed, in the writing here alluded to. The reformer was excommunicated. He had the clearest ideas concerning the church and concerning interpretation of any of the ancients.
3 Contra Epist. Parmen. ii. 14, also written circ. 400 A.D.
4 Cyprian, in his controversy with Pope Stephen of Rome, denied the validity of heretical or schismatical baptism. The Donatists denied the validity of Catholic baptism. See Schaff, Church History, vol. ii. 262 sqq.
5 Comp. v. 23, and iii. 16, note.
6 2 Felicianus, bishop of Musti, headed the revolt against Primianus, the successor of Parmenianus in the Carthaginian See. Listening to the complaint of the deacon Maximianus, who had been deposed by Primianus, a synod was convened in 393 at Cabarsussis, which ordained Maximianus as bishop of Carthage. Hence the title Maximianistae. Primianus, in 394, at the council of Bagai, was recognized by 310 bishops. The larger fraction, according to the Catholics, was subsequently forced into reunion. Praetextatus, bp. of Assuris, was also one of the leaders in this separation.
7 1 Ps. lxi. 2, 3. Cp. Hieron, and LXX.
9 1 Ps. lxi. 2, 3. Cp. Hieron, and LXX.
13 The Council of 310 Donatist bishops, held at Bagai in Numidia, A.D. April 24, 394. Cp. Contra. Crescon. iii. 52, 56.
14 Quodam modo cardinales Donatistas.
17 Mark ix. 38, 39; Luke ix. 50.
31 1 Cor. x. 11. In figura; tupikw=j; A. V., "for ensamples."