“For it is said there is great and exceeding joy and festival in the heavens with the Father and the angels when one sinner turns and repents.”
Clement of Alexandria, 3th c. — Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved?
Original
10Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
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In context
8Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
9And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.
— Luke 15:10 —
11And he said, A certain man had two sons:
12And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.