Isaiah 43:25
Douay-Rheims
I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.
John Chrysostom
God does not wait for time to elapse after repentance. You stated your sin, you are justified. You repented, you have been shown mercy. Time does not excuse; rather, the manner of the repentant individual erases the sin. One individual may wait a long time and not gain salvation, and another, who confesses genuinely, is stripped of the sin inside a short time.
Source details
A.D. 407 · on Isa 43:25 (HOMILIES ON REPENTANCE AND ALMSGIVING 7:4.12)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.