Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
The merciful God has provided for the inhabitants of earth repentance as the medicine of salvation. Some endeavor to dispense with repentance, saying of themselves that they are clean. In their great madness they do not understand that to entertain such an idea of themselves is full of all impurity. For “no man is free from defilement,” as it is written. Commentary on Luke, Homily