Teach Me to Repent
Taken from Psalms for Everyone
author: John Goldingay
contributor: SPCK - John Goldingay
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Teach Me to Repent
Psalm 51
John Donne was a seventeenth-century priest, love poet, and member of parliament. He also wrote a series of “Holy Sonnets” (found in The Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. Christopher Ricks [New York: Oxford University Press, 1999], 117). In one he imagines resurrection day, then recalls how the coming of that day will mean it is too late to ask for forgiveness. So he concludes by saying to God,...
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