{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>He, then, who has received the forgiveness of sins ought to sin no\r\nmore. For, in addition to the first and only repentance from sins (this\r\nis from the previous sins in the first and heathen life—I mean that in\r\nignorance), there is forthwith proposed to those who have been called,\r\nthe repentance which cleanses the seat of the soul from transgressions,\r\nthat faith may be established. And the Lord, knowing the heart, and\r\nforeknowing the future, foresaw both the fickleness of man and the\r\ncraft and subtlety of the devil from the first, from the beginning;\r\nhow that, envying man for the forgiveness of sins, he would present\r\nto the servants of God certain causes of sins; skilfully working\r\nmischief, that they might fall together with himself. Accordingly,\r\nbeing very merciful, He has vouchsafed, in the case of those who,\r\nthough in faith, fall into any transgression, a second repentance; so\r\nthat should any one be tempted after his calling, overcome by force\r\nand fraud, he may receive still a repentance not to be repented of.\r\n“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_36\">[36]</span> of\r\nthe truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, but a certain\r\nfearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall\r\ndevour the adversaries.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_119\" id=\"FNanchor_119\">[119]</a> But continual and successive repentings\r\nfor sins differ nothing from the case of those who have not believed\r\nat all, except only in their consciousness that they do sin. And I\r\nknow not which of the two is worst, whether the case of a man who\r\nsins knowingly, or of one who, after having repented of his sins,\r\ntransgresses again. For in the process of proof sin appears on each\r\nside,—the sin which in its commission is condemned by the worker of\r\nthe iniquity, and that of the man who, foreseeing what is about to be\r\ndone, yet puts his hand to it as a wickedness. And he who perchance\r\ngratifies himself in anger and pleasure, gratifies himself in he knows\r\nwhat; and he who, repenting of that in which he gratified himself,\r\nby rushing again into pleasure, is near neighbour to him who has\r\nsinned wilfully at first. For one, who does again that of which he has\r\nrepented, and condemning what he does, performs it willingly.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XIII. ON FIRST AND SECOND REPENTANCE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_119","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-63"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ff9686606b32260783b9ddb045ae89d02eb18d6bba910e02c80ec56109aa8ca5","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"HEB","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. x. 26","verse":26,"verse_end":26}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_119","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_119","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_119\" id=\"Footnote_119\">[119]</a> Heb. x. 26, 27.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_119","text_sha256":"21e5422fb8e4745efec9fa8860bf81b2c594348c6c913a9de6fb5ded528d0dc2","verified":false,"work_id":null}