Repentance
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repentance · conversion · tawbah · التوبة · amnesty · correcting error · matāb · metanoia · paenitentia · repent
in the texts
Barlaam and Josaphat
The doctrine that sins committed after baptism may be forgiven through tears and toil.
And from many places in Scripture we are taught the power of repentance, and above all from the commands and parables of our Lord Jesus Christ.
See, this parable he set forth for us concerning those who turn back from sins and fall down in repentance.
From all these, then, and from many other examples beyond number, we learn the power of tears and of repentance;
Stromata
Repentance, discussed as an achievement dependent on and following from faith and fear.
for repentance is a slow knowing, but the first knowledge is sinlessness.
Caution, then, is shown to be rational, being an avoidance of what harms, from which springs the repentance of former sins.
Repentance, then, is also a right achievement of faith.
The Rights of War and Peace
The call to moral change preached by both John the Baptist and Christ, used to argue their doctrines are consistent.
Both our Saviour and the Baptist made repentance the substance of their doctrine;
But for sins of that kind, to obtain the act of mercy and indulgence, the offender must inflict punishment upon himself, not in a slight or trivial manner, but with a heartfelt sorrow, and resolution to sin no more.
But if on the other hand it be said that longer life might have been of more avail to serious repentance, we may observe that, in some cases, the reply of Seneca may be made, that to men of that description death is often the greatest blessing which can be bestowed;
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Tawbah, turning back from sin, whose prompt arrival after an offence marks the middle grade of the commanding soul.
These are two extremes, and between them is the degree of one whose soul calls him to a grave sin, or to persistence in a slight one, and who then regrets it after a short while, so that it brings repentance hard upon the offence.
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
Turning back to God, presented both as the only safeguard against punishment for the misuse of learning and as the urgent demand pressed on an ageing polemicist and on the letter's own author.
and do not count yourself safe from punishment save by repentance.
Is it not time for you to repent and turn back!
Adab al-wazīr
Repentance, named as the expiation for the sins of worldly office.
So expiate its acts of disobedience by repentance, and mend its evils by obedience;
Letters
The doctrine of repentance and God's readiness to forgive, held out as the way of salvation.
the mysteries concerning death and resurrection, the words concerning the dreadful judgement and eternal chastisement, the doctrines concerning repentance and the forgiveness of sins, those countless examples of conversion — the drachma, the sheep, the son who devoured his living with the harlots, the lost and found, the dead and come to life again.
The Word, calling us to repentance, cries out and calls aloud:
The Father stands and awaits your return from your wandering.
Academica
The capacity to correct rashness or moral error through repentance.
But if it were granted, as to those who have strayed on a journey, so to those who have followed a wandering course of life, to correct their error by repentance, the amending of rashness would be easier.
Protrepticus
Turning away from sin and custom toward God, urged as necessary for salvation.
For God bestows life, but a wicked custom, after the departure from this world, brings empty repentance together with punishment.
Wrath nourishes the punishment upon sin, but love does good upon repentance.
Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?
The doctrine and practice of repentance and divine forgiveness of sins, central to the possibility of salvation even after grave sin.
and true repentance is no longer to be liable to the same things, but utterly to root out of the soul the sins for which a man has condemned himself to death;
and, supplicating with abundant prayers, and contending together with him in continual fastings, and charming down his mind with manifold spells of words, he did not depart, as they say, before he had restored him to the Church—giving a great example of true repentance and a great token of regeneration, a trophy of a visible resurrection.
while it is possible for the man who has lived worse and slovenly before, if afterward he repents, to overcome a long-continued evil polity by the time after repentance—but there is need of much exactness, just as bodies worn by a long sickness need a regimen and greater attention.
Meditations
The act of self-reproach for having missed something good, examined as a philosophical concept.
Repentance is a kind of self-reproach for having let slip something useful;
Shall I not repent of it?
De Baptismo
The human act of turning from sin, identified as the province of John's baptism as distinct from Christ's.
We, moreover, with however little faith we are endowed, can with just so little understanding judge that it was indeed a divine baptism, yet by commandment, not also by power — since we read that John too was sent by the Lord to this office — but otherwise human in its condition.
De Paenitentia
The central virtue/discipline of the text: a rational turning from sin, first performed before baptism and, exceptionally, offered a second time after.
That class of men to which we ourselves once belonged — blind, without the light of the Lord — know repentance, so far as nature goes, to be a certain passion of the mind which comes from disgust at a former judgement now turned the worse.
How inept, moreover — not to fulfil repentance, yet to look to obtain the pardon of transgressions!
that repentance, which, shown forth and enjoined upon us by the grace of God, recalls us into favour with the Lord, ought, once known and undertaken, never thereafter to be cancelled by a repetition of transgression.