Catalogue Entry: THEM00317
Book I: Chapter 17
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Him on this side Euphrates yet residing,
Bred up in idol-worship. Paradise Lost, XII. 114.
Yet he at length, time to himself best known,
Rememb'ring Abraham, by some wond'rous call
May bring them back. Paradise Regained, III. 433
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Ut pœnitentia ad resipiscentiam, ita fides hujusmodi se habet ad fidem salvificam. This is probably an allusion to the distinction made by Lactantius between these two words. 'Is enim quem facti sui pœnitet, errorem suum pristinum intelligit: ideoque Græci melius et significantius μετάνοιαν dicunt, quam nos possimus resipiscentiam dicere; resipiscit enim, ac mentem suam quasi ab insania recipit, quem errati pigit, castigatque seipsum dementiæ, et confirmat animum suum ad rectius vivendum; tum illud maxime cavet, ne rursus in eosdem laqueos inducatur.' Lib. 6. De Vero Cultu, c. 24. Tertullian however in his treatise on Repentance, and the Fathers in general, use the two words indiscriminately.
