{The Weight of Sin (1) [continued (7)] – The Forgiveness of Sins – (1) Victim's Forgiveness}[29th November 1987]

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For sins against others,* an essential part of the transformation may be to ask the victim's forgiveness and make recompense: it is hard to see how the inner Transformation can occur without this, since genuine acknowledgement and repentance necessarily implies apology and reparation (although apology and reparation can occur without genuine acknowledgement and repentance).

It is not necessary for the victim to forgive the genuinely repentant: the same repentance will do for victim and for Christ, who is all the Victims (and all the Victors). The Victim's state of mind is part of the Victim's problem, not (or not necessarily) the perpetrator's.

*[See last previous entry.]

[Capitalisation of initial letters as in ms.]

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