Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist/Book II/Chapter 66

147.&#160; said:&#160; "&#8216;Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:&#160; for they shall be filled.&#8217;&#160; To you it seems to be righteousness that you thirst after our blood."

148.&#160; answered:&#160; What shall I say unto thee, O man, except that thou art calumnious?&#160; The unity of Christ, indeed, is hungering and thirsting after all of you; and I would that it might swallow you up, for then would you be no longer heretics.