To Donatist refusal to endure difference within the church, he praises the ''examples of the Prophets and the Apostles, namely, that we are to bear with the wicked, so as not to desert the good, rather than to desert the good so as to cut off the wicked,? [malos esse potius tolerandos, ne deserantur boni, quam bonos de- serendos, ut separentur mali)83 In each instance, it is love’s patient endurance that he commends, a disposition of our hearts and a work of charity designed to bring peace to the city and unity to the church. It is not an act of just endurance, one that emerges from extraecclesial roles and relationships and that is ordained to their ends. It is, rather, a requirement of the person’s status as a member of the city of God on its temporal sojourn. And the benefit it brings to those extraecclesial roles and relationships will be entirely a consequence of this love’s work upon them. In this respect as well, Tinder is simply following Augustine’s lead.84