Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Even this he did only formally, as words of course, when he ought to have wept and mourned as a penitent. If perchance it may be forgiven you. Not as though it would not have been pardoned, had he wept, but this is the manner of the Prophet also, to denounce absolutely, (ἀ παγορεύειν) and not to say, Howbeit, if you do this, your sin shall be forgiven, but that in any wise the punishment shall take effect.
