Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist/Book II/Chapter 71

157.&#160; said:&#160; "To you the prophet says, &#8216;Peace, peace; and where is there peace?&#8217;"

158.&#160; answered:&#160; It is you that say this to us, not the prophet.&#160; We therefore answer you:&#160; If you ask where peace is to be found, open your eyes, and see of whom it is said, "He maketh wars to cease in all the world." &#160; If you ask where peace is to be found, open your eyes to see that city which cannot be hidden, because it is built upon a hill; open your eyes to see the mountain itself, and let Daniel show it to you, growing out of a small stone, and filling the whole earth. &#160; But when the prophet says to you, "Peace, peace; and where is there peace?" what will you show?&#160; Will you show the party of Donatus, unknown to the countless nations to whom Christ is known?&#160; It is surely not the city which cannot be hid; and whence is this, except that it is not founded on the mountain?&#160; "For He is our peace, who hath made both one," —not Donatus, who has made one into two.