Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist/Book II/Chapter 108

244.&#160; said:&#160; "By this sentence, again, the apostle places in the same category those who have fellowship in the consciousness of evil.&#160; &#8216;Worthy of death,&#8217; he says, &#8216;are both those who do such things, and those who consent with those that do them.&#8217;"

245.&#160; answered:&#160; I care not in what manner you have used these words, they are true.&#160; And this is the substance of the teaching of the Catholic Church, that there is a great difference between those who consent because they take pleasure in such things, and those who tolerate while they dislike them.&#160; The former make themselves chaff, while they follow the barrenness of the chaff; the latter are the grain.&#160; Let them wait for Christ, who bears the winnowing-fan, that they may be separated from the chaff.