Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Tenth

This grief, then, appears to be accompanied by salvation, because the man, after having done a wicked deed, repented.[3]

Pseudo-Cyprian Exhortation to Repentance

Paul to the Corinthians: "For the sorrow which is according to God worketh a stedfast repentance unto salvation, but the sorrow of the world worketh death."[51]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

But, as we have said, when his womb was enlarged, and the time of his travail came on, he delivered himself only of an abortive burden in the conception of unrighteousness, and consequently he could not be called the father in perfection, except only at that very time when the conception was still in the womb; and afterwards, when he betook himself to the hangman's rope, he showed that he had not brought it to a complete birth, because remorse[321]

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