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
For had it been done with simplicity, he would have even welcomed his willing mind. Do you see that to have mean conceptions of great things is to sin doubly? Accordingly, two things he bids him: Repent and pray, if haply the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. Acts 8:22 Do you see it was a wicked thought he had entertained? Therefore he says, If haply it may be forgiven you: because he knew him to be incorrigible.
