Donatist charges centered on the fact that certain Catholic bishops had handed over the Scriptures to be burned during the persecution under Diocletian. Such an act, the Donatists insisted, was a sin of apostasy and disqualified the offender from church leadership. Since the Catholic priests were ordained by bishops who had sinned so grievously (and thus were not legitimate), the Donatists believed they, rather than the Catholics, constituted the true church of Christ.
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Wê dil bi kesê neda
Kê dîtiye wek nuha
Huner ma bit bê buha
Li jêr simê kerê reş
Diperçiqin gulên geş
Sitema dêwê kirêt
Ez kirim agir û pêt
Ax ji destê vî dêwî
Huner hêlaye sêwî
Hezar wek min şêrejin
Ji dil û can dihejin
Baca evînê xwîn e
Mem û Zînê tu b’xwîne
Bes bike lavelavê
Mil bide ber bizavê
Bi hunerê sax û germ
Bi xeyala pak û nerm
Huner bike hezareng
Bi hostayî bide deng
Huner ne wek elmas e
Bihatir e û binase
Bi huner tu hingavtî
Di gel xwe tu bişavtî
Hûn hatine bişavtin
Evîn nayê veşartin
Vê janê bîne derê
Nem’re bi vê kederê
Were bike piyasê
Tu guh nede qiyasê
Nebêje dem bihorî
Wuuu
Delalê dilê mino, çenda bêjim hêj û wê ve ye
Were were, şeql û hêla te pê ve ye
Gidî lolo, tu xweşmêrê min î, ez dilbera te me
Were bi şêxadî, kesk û sor û zera te me
Medieval heresies were concerned with God, not man. Poverty was embraced not only in imitation of Christ and the Apostles but in deliberate contrast to the avarice that corrupted men of property. To be without property was to be without sin. Dissent was not a denial of religion but an excess of piety in search of a purer Christianity.
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