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Chapter XI.—Of Repentance.
And when the people transgressed the law which
had been given to them by God, God being good and pitiful, unwilling to
destroy them, in addition to His giving them the law, afterwards sent
forth also prophets to them from among their brethren, to teach and
remind them of the contents of the law, and to turn them to repentance,
that they might sin no more. But if they persisted in their wicked deeds,
He forewarned them that they should be delivered into subjection to all
the kingdoms of the earth; and that this has already happened them is
manifest. Concerning repentance, then, Isaiah the prophet, generally
indeed to all, but expressly to the people, says: “Seek ye the
Lord while He may be found,
call ye upon Him while He is near: let the wicked forsake his ways,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord his God, and he will find
mercy, for He will abundantly pardon.”651
And another prophet, Ezekiel,
says: “If the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath
committed, and keep all My statutes, and do that which is right in My
sight, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions
that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him; but in
his righteousness that he hath done he shall live: for I desire not the
death of the sinner, saith the Lord, but that he turn from his wicked
way, and live.”652
Again Isaiah: “Ye who take deep
and wicked counsel, turn ye, that ye may be saved.”653
And another prophet, Jeremiah: “Turn to the Lord your God, as a grape-gatherer to his
basket, and ye shall find mercy.”654
Many therefore, yea rather,
countless are the sayings in the Holy Scriptures regarding repentance, God
being always desirous that the race of men turn from all their sins.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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