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1And I asked him again, saying: “If the Lord has thought me worthy for you always to live with me, suffer yet a few words of mine, since I have no understanding and my heart has been hardened by my former deeds; give me understanding, for I am very foolish and have absolutely no understanding.” 2He answered me and said, “I am set over repentance, and I give understanding to all those who repent. Or do you not think,” said he, “that this very repentance is itself understanding? To repent,” said he, “is great understanding. For the sinner understands that he ‘has done wickedly before the Lord,’ and the deed which he wrought comes into his heart, and he repents and no longer does wickedly, but does good abundantly, and humbles his soul and punishes it because he sinned. You see, therefore, that repentance is great understanding.” 3“For this reason then, sir,” said I, “I enquire accurately from you as to all things. First, because I am a sinner, that I may know what I must do to live, because my sins are many and manifold.” 4“You shall live,” he said, “if you keep my commandments and walk in them, and whosoever shall hear and keep these commandments shall live to God.”