[906] Rom. xiii. 4.
[907] Augustine speaks of the Moor Rogatus, bishop of Cartenna in Mauritania Cæsariensis, in his ninety-third epistle, to Vincentius, c. iii. 11. We learn from the eighty-seventh epistle, to Emeritus, sec. 10, that the followers of Rogatus called the other Donatists Firmiani, because they had been subjected to much cruelty at their hands under the authority of Firmus.
[908] Optatus of Thaumugade, the friend of Gildo.
[909] Augustine mentions again in his thirty-fifth epistle, to Eusebius, sec. 3, that Hippo had received the Roman citizenship. His argument is that, even if not a native of the place, the deacon should have been safe from molestation wherever Roman laws prevailed.
[910] Emphyteuticam. The land, therefore, was held under the emperors, and less absolutely in the power of the owner than if it had been freehold.
[911] Augustine remonstrates with Crispinus on the point, Epist. lxvi.
[912] John vi. 44.
[913] See Ecclus. xv. 16, 17.
[914] Matt. v. 10; 1 Pet. ii. 20.
[915] Acts v. 29.