You shall live, he said, if you keep my commandments and walk in them, and whosoever shall hear and keep these commandments shall live to God.

I will yet, sir, said I, continue to ask.Repentance for sin after baptism Say on, said he. I have heard, sir, said I, from some teachersPossibly a reference to Heb. 6, 4 ff. that there is no second repentance beyond the one given when we went down into the water and received remission of our former sins.

He said to me, You have heard correctly, for that is so. For he who has received remission of sin ought never to sin again, but to live in purity.

But since you ask accurately concerning all things, I will explain this also to you without giving an excuse to those who in the future shall believe or to those who have already believed on the Lord. For those who have already believed or shall believe in the future, have no repentance of sins, but have remission of their former sin.