Then answered Simon, and said, Pray you to the Lord for me, that none of these things which you have spoken come upon me.
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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.
(a) Therefore they that were scattered abroad, went everywhere, preaching the word. But I would have you admire how even in a season of calamity they neglected not the preaching. Hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
