{"author":"Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)","date_end":1885,"date_label":"1885 (historical English edition; physical printing year uncertain)","date_start":1885,"edition_year":1885,"edition_year_basis":"Historical American ANF Volume III title leaf: Buffalo, The Christian Literature Publishing Company, 1885; Wikisource physical reprint identity not established","id":"ws-library-full-note:3edd290c96b8a1d788cb:cite_note-4","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"editorial-footnote","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Chapter 4, editorial note cite_note-4","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["To all sins, then, committed whether by flesh or spirit, whether by deed or will, the same God who has destined penalty by means of judgment, has withal engaged to grant pardon by means of repentance, saying to the people, “Repent thee, and I will save thee;” and again, “I live, saith the Lord, and I will (have) repentance rather than death.” Repentance, then, is “life,” since it is preferred to “death.” That repentance, O sinner, like myself (nay, rather, less than myself, for pre-eminence in sins I acknowledge to be mine), do you so hasten to, so embrace, as a shipwrecked man the protection of some plank. This will draw you forth when sunk in the waves of sins, and will bear you forward into the port of the divine clemency. Seize the opportunity of unexpected felicity: that you, who sometime were in God’s sight nothing but “a drop of a bucket,” and “dust of the threshing-floor,” and “a potter’s vessel,” may thenceforward become that “tree which is sown beside the waters, is perennial in leaves, bears fruit at its own time,” and shall not see “fire,” nor “axe.” Having found “the truth,” repent of errors; repent of having loved what God loves not: even we ourselves do not permit our slave-lads not to hate the things which are offensive to us; for the principle of voluntary obedience consists in similarity of minds."],"source_library_url":"/library/3edd290c96b8a1d788cb/#ws-library-full-note:3edd290c96b8a1d788cb:cite_note-4","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Ethical/On_Repentance/IV#cite_note-4","translator":"Sydney Thelwall","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/heading-library-note-batch-0066/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"cb669cd6269f4ca0fcfd1dd5c0fe3a7556905d618ad7ad83700fbfdabbdb43ef","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:3edd290c96b8a1d788cb:cite_note-4"},"verified":true,"work":"On Repentance","work_id":"tertullian-anf3-4b07872c7c8a97c1a52d"}