Repentance and the Change of Nature
Having repented of him very much. For in this way, the one having cast away the prostituting way in the house of God was received to the Church.
Regarding the fact that there is nothing of an evil nature, as some of the heterodox boast, a change of choice occurs; this is shown from the Gospel, by the Canaanite woman changing from a dog into a woman, becoming a daughter of the one who saved her, having said these things: 'Daughter, your faith has saved you' (Matthew 15:28). For perhaps because of this she happened to be a dog before the faith, because she was an unrestrained woman;... for she was looking toward a greedy and shameful flattery... a dog; immediately indeed, with a prostituting wage it is forbidden, the law saying: 'Not...
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αὐτὸν σφόδρα̣ μετανοήσαντα. Οὕτ̣ω̣ς γὰρ ὁ ἀπ̣οβαλὼν τὸν πορνικὸν τρόπον ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῇ [̓Εκκλησίᾳ εἰσήχθη. 5.210 Ὅτι δὲ οὐδενὸς ὄντος φύσει κακοῦ, ὡς δοξάζουσί τινες τῶν ἑτεροδόξων, μεταβολὴ προ̣αιρετικὴ γίνεται, παρίσταται ἐκ τοῦ Εὐαγγελίου, μεταβαλούσης τῆς Χαναναίας γυναικὸς ἐκ κυνὸς εἰς γυναῖκα, χρηματίζουσαν θυγατέρα τοῦ σώσαντος αὐτήν, εἰρηκότος τάδε· «Θύγατερ, ἡ πίστις σου σέσωκέν σε.» 5.211 Τάχα γὰρ διὰ του῀̣το ἐτύγχανεν κύων πρὸ τῆς πίστεως, ὅτι ἀκόλαστος ἦν γυνή· ······ορον γὰρ πρὸς ὀχείαν καὶ αἰσχροπαθῆ κολακείᾳ το······ κ̣ύων· αὐτίκα γοῦν σὺν πορνικῷ μισθώματι ἀπαγορεύεται, τοῦ νόμου λέγοντος· «Οὐκ
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Didymus the Blind on Zechariah.
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