Let us turn to every ages that has passed, and learn that, from generation to generation, the Lord has granted a place of repentance to all such as would be converted to Him. Noah preached repentance, and as many as listened to him were saved. (Gen 7; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5) Jonah proclaimed destruction to the Ninevites; (Jonah 3) but they, repenting of their sins, propitiated God by prayer and obtained salvation, although they were aliens [to the covenant] of God.
+St. Clement of Rome, from The First Epistle, chapter 6.
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