Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Section 1398
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Work: Ante-Nicene Fathers — Volume 2
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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He, then, who has received the forgiveness of sins ought to sin no more. For, in addition to the first and only repentance from sins (this is from the previous sins in the first and heathen life--I mean that in ignorance), there is forthwith proposed to those who have been called, the repentance which cleanses the seat of the soul from transgressions, that faith may be established. And the Lord, knowing the heart, and foreknowing the future, foresaw both the fickleness of man and the craft and subtlety of the devil from the first, from the beginning; how that, envying man for the forgi…
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