The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Clemens Romanus (Clement of Rome)

Clement of Rome. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912.

The ministers of the grace of God spoke[*](Repentance in the Prophets) through the Holy Spirit concerning repentance,

and even the Master of the universe himself spoke with an oath concerning repentance; For as I live, said the Lord, I do not desire the death of the sinner so much as his repentance, and he added a gracious declaration,