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The Testament of Gad describes repentance removing ignorance, dispelling darkness, and bringing knowledge that leads to salvation. Paul in 2 Corinthians uses similar language to describe genuine repentance as godly and leading to salvation.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Testament of Gad 5:7
Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs
Pseudepigrapha
5 He does not speak against a holy man, because the fear of God overcomes hatred. 6 Fearing that he might offend the Lord, he will not wrong anyone, even in thought. 7 I learned these things at last, after I had repented over Joseph. 8 For true, godly repentance destroys ignorance, drives away the darkness, enlightens the eyes, gives knowledge to the soul, and leads the mind to salvation. 9 And the things it has not learned from anyone, it comes to know through repentance. 10 For God brought a disease of the liver upon me, and if the prayers of my father Jacob had not helped me, my spirit would almost certainly have departed. For by whatever things a person sins, by those same things he is also punished. 11 Since my liver had been set mercilessly against Joseph, in my liver too I suffered mercilessly, and I was judged for eleven months, the same length of time that I had been angry at Joseph.
2 Corinthians 7:10
New Testament
8 For even if I made you sad by my letter, I do not regret having written it (even though I did regret it, for I see that my letter made you sad, though only for a short time). 9 Now I rejoice, not because you were made sad, but because you were made sad to the point of repentance. For you were made sad as God intended, so that you were not harmed in any way by us. 10 For sadness as intended by God produces a repentance that leads to salvation, leaving no regret, but worldly sadness brings about death. 11 For see what this very thing, this sadness as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
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Notes and References
"... In assessing parallels, readers should be alert to how the same word or phrase can be employed in different ways or with different connotations ... No translation, even a rigorously literal one, can always follow its source strictly and consistently. So even with the NASB, one cannot assume that a particular Greek term is always rendered with the same English term ..."
Wilson, Walter T.
Pauline Parallels: A Comprehensive Guide
(pp. XII-XIII,220) Westminster John Knox Press, 2009
* The use of references are not endorsements of their contents. Please read the entirety of the provided reference(s) to understand the author's full intentions regarding the use of these texts.
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