Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
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Thomas Aquinas
AD 1274
God is said ‘to change His mind,’ metaphorically, inasmuch as He bears Himself after the manner of one who repents, by ‘changing His sentence, although He does not change His plan.