Tertullian (160-220)
On Repentance
(De paenitentia)
On Repentance. 1
[Translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall.]
[We pass from the polemical class of our author's writings to those of a practical and ethical character. This treatise on Penitence is the product of our author's best days, and may be dated a.d. 192.] ↩
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Inhaltsangabe
- On Repentance.
- Chapter I.--Of Heathen Repentance.
- Chapter II.--True Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to His Laws.
- Chapter III.--Sins May Be Divided into Corporeal and Spiritual. Both Equally Subject, If Not to Human, Yet to Divine Investigation and Punishment.
- Chapter IV.--Repentance Applicable to All the Kinds of Sin. To Be Practised Not Only, Nor Chiefly, for the Good It Brings, But Because God Commands It.
- Chapter V.--Sin Never to Be Returned to After Repentance.
- Chapter VI.--Baptism Not to Be Presumptously Received. It Requires Preceding Repentance, Manifested by Amendment of Life.
- Chapter VII.--Of Repentance, in the Case of Such as Have Lapsed After Baptism.
- Chapter VIII.--Examples from Scripture to Prove the Lord's Willingness to Pardon.
- Chapter IX.--Concerning the Outward Manifestations by Which This Second Repentance is to Be Accompanied.
- Chapter X.--Of Men's Shrinking from This Second Repentance and Exomologesis, and of the Unreasonableness of Such Shrinking.
- Chapter XI.--Further Strictures on the Same Subject.
- Chapter XII.--Final Considerations to Induce to Exomologesis.