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Rh repetition of Baptism. They restrain not, nor limit the mercies of, that "he may peradventure give them repentance,—and that they may awake out of the snare of the devil, who have been taken alive by him at his will;" (2 Tim. ii. 25, 26) but they say that the Apostle here peremptorily decides that man has no means to restore such; for man it is impossible. "See," says St. Chrysostom, "how awfully and forbiddingly he begins. "'Impossible!' i.e. look not for what is not possible. He saith not, it is not fitting, is not expedient, is not allowable, but—'is impossible;' so that he at once casts them into desperation, if they have but once been illuminated.—Is then repentance excluded? Not repentance, God forbid! but a renewal again by Baptism: for he saith not 'impossible that they should be renewed to repentance,' and there stops; but adds 'that they should be renewed,' i.e. become new, 'by crucifying again:' for to 'make men new' belongs only to Baptism; but the office of Repentance is, when they have been made new, and then become old through sins, to free them from this oldness, and make them new; but it cannot bring them to that former brightness: for then (in Baptism) the whole was grace." He then, (as do all the other Fathers) explains the words