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[8420] [We pass from the polemical class of our author’s writings to those of a practical and ethical character. This treatise on Penitence is the product of our author’s best days, and may be dated a.d. 192.]
Chapter I.—Of Heathen Repentance.
[8421] “Offensa sententiæ pejoris;” or possibly, “the miscarriage of some,” etc.
[8422] Thesaurus.
[8423] Sæculo. [Erasmus doubted the genuineness of this treatise, partly because of the comparative purity of its style. See Kaye, p. 42.]
Chapter II.—True Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to His Laws.
[8424] Sæculi dote. With which he had been endowed. Comp. Gen. i. 28; Ps. viii. 4-8.
[8425] i.e., man.
[8426] Orbi.
[8427] Componeret.
[8428] Comp. Matt. iii. 1-2; Mark i. 4; Luke iii. 4-6.
[8429] i.e., man’s salvation.
[8430] See the latter part of c. i.
[8431] Viderit.
[8432] Or, “defending.”
[8433] [Without reference to Luther’s theory of justification, we must all adopt this as the test of “a standing or falling church,” viz. “How does it deal with sin and the sinner.”]
[8435] Or, “briefly to lay down the rule.”
[8436] i.e., in the judgment-day. Compare the phrase “that day and that hour” in Scripture.
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