Let the Partakers in Strife Acknowledge Their Sins. - ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristides, The Epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen’s Commentary on John, Books 1–10, and Commentary on Matthew, Books 1, 2, and 10

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Let the Partakers in Strife Acknowledge Their Sins.
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Chapter LI.—Let the Partakers in Strife Acknowledge Their Sins.

Let us therefore implore forgiveness for all those transgressions which through any [suggestion] of the adversary we have committed. And these who have been the leaders of sedition and disagreement ought to have respect⁴²⁷³

⁴²⁷³ Or, “look to.”
to the common hope. For such as live in fear and love would rather that they themselves than their neighbours should be involved in suffering. And they prefer to bear blame themselves, rather than that the concord which has been well and piously⁴²⁷⁴

⁴²⁷⁴ Or, “righteously.”
handed down to us should suffer. For it is better that a man should acknowledge his transgressions than that he should harden his heart, as the hearts of those were hardened who stirred up sedition against Moses the servant⁴²⁷⁵

⁴²⁷⁵ I. ἄνθρωπον (man).
of God, and whose condemnation was made manifest [unto all]. For they went down alive into Hades, and death swallowed them up.⁴²⁷⁶

⁴²⁷⁶ Num. xvi. I θάνατος ποιμανεῖ αὐτούς—“Death shall feed on them,” Ps. xlix. 14 A.V.—should be, “Death shall tend them.”
Pharaoh with his army and all the princes of Egypt, and the chariots with their riders, were sunk in the depths of the Red Sea, and perished,⁴²⁷⁷

⁴²⁷⁷ Ex. xiv.
for no other reason than that their foolish hearts were hardened, after so many signs and wonders had been wrought in the land of Egypt by Moses the servant of God.
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