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<blockquote>If we ... are ourselves our own accusers, we escape the malice of the Devil, (who is our enemy and accuser); for so the Prophet elsewhere says: “Tell thou thine iniquities before (thou be accused), that thou mayest be justified,” and David also in the same spirit saith in the Psalms, “I made bare mine iniquity and hid not my sins.”...</blockquote> | <blockquote>If we ... are ourselves our own accusers, we escape the malice of the Devil, (who is our enemy and accuser); for so the Prophet elsewhere says: “Tell thou thine iniquities before (thou be accused), that thou mayest be justified,” and David also in the same spirit saith in the Psalms, “I made bare mine iniquity and hid not my sins.”...</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>As they who are troubled with indigestion and have anything within them which lies crude upon their stomachs are not relieved but by proper evacuations; so | <blockquote>As they who are troubled with indigestion and have anything within them which lies crude upon their stomachs are not relieved but by proper evacuations; so sinners who conceal their practices and retain them within their own bosoms feel in themselves an inward disquietude and are almost choked with the malignity which they thus suppress. But by confession and self-accusation they discharge themselves of their burden and digest, as it were, the crudity which was so oppressive.<ref>Origen, ''Homilies on Leviticus''.</ref></blockquote> | ||
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