No more vivid illustration of what evangelical repentance is
can be framed than that which is found in the Greek original,
“_straphate_,” rendered “convert,” which means to face
about, or turn around, in allusion to the movement of a ship
when it is put about on an opposite course; or to the action of
a flower when it turns its face toward the sun. The change of
mind becomes a change of life.
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