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CHAPTER 23
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCES
Subjoined are a few other correspondences between Jainism and Christianity: (1) Confession is held in common in both.
"Peter mourned and wept, because, ag men will, he erred. I find not what he said : I find that he wept. I read of his tears, I read not of his explanation; but what cannot be defended can be washed away. Let tears wash away the sin which one is ashamed to confess with the voice . . . Tears express the fault without dread : tears confess the sin without injuring modesty."-Penetential Discipline in the Early Church, p. 101. (2) Salvation is only for man.
" And after these things He also placed man at the head of the world, and man, too, made in the image of God, to whom he imparted mind, and reason, and foresight, that he might imitate God; And when he had given him all things for his service, He willed that he alone should be free." (Cyprian) A.N.C.L. vol. xiii, p. 299.
“For although there is assigned to angels also perdition in the fire prepared for the devil, and his angels,' (Matt. xxv. 41), yet & restoration is never promised to them. No charge about the salvation of angels did Christ ever receive from the Father, and that which the Father neither promised nor commanded, Christ could not have undertaken."-(Tertullian) A.N.C.L. vol. xv. pp. 193-194. (3) Woman's inequality to man.
"She has the burden of her own inferiority to bear."--Tertu. llian) A.N.C.L. vol. xi. p. 368.
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