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St. Ambrose - On Repentance (Paperback)
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St. Ambrose - On Repentance (Paperback)
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THESE two books were written against the Novatian heresy, which
took its name, and to a considerable extent its form, from Novatus,
a priest of the Church of Carthage, and Novatian, schismatically
consecrated bishop at Rome. It was the outcome of a struggle which
had long existed in the Church upon the question of the restitution
to Church privileges of those who had fallen into grievous sin, and
the possibility of their repentance. St. Ambrose, in writing
against the Novatians, seems to have had some recent publication of
theirs in his mind, which is now unknown. He begins by commending
gentleness, a quality singularly wanting in the sect; speaks of the
power committed to the Church of forgiving the greatest sins, and
points out how God is more inclined to mercy than to severity, and
refutes the arguments of the Novatians based on certain passages of
Holy Scripture. In the second book, after urging the necessity of
careful and speedy repentance, and the necessity of confessing
one's sins, St. Ambrose meets the Novatian arguments based on Heb.
vi. 4-6, from which they inferred the impossibility of restoration;
and on St. Matt. xii. 31, 32, our Lord's words concerning sin
against the Holy Spirit.
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