80. The Apostle then judged that the sinner should
then at once be restored to the heavenly sacraments if he himself
wished to be cleansed. And well is it said “Purge,”
for he is purged as by certain things done by the whole people, and is
washed in the tears of the multitude, and redeemed from sin by the
weeping of the multitude, and is purged in the inner man. For
Christ granted to His Church that one should be redeemed by means of
all, as she herself was found worthy of the coming of the Lord Jesus,
in order that through One all might be redeemed.