The Eastern Cross/Library/Concerning Repentance
The Novatianists said the Church could not forgive serious sins after baptism. St. Ambrose answers from the Gospels: Christ gave His Church the power to bind and loose, and no sinner who truly repents is shut out.
He also writes beautifully about what real repentance looks like, tears and all.
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About this edition
Translated by H. de Romestin, with E. de Romestin and H. T. F. Duckworth, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 10 (1896), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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