John Chrysostom, on Isa 1:16

“Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,”

“Let us accept the medicine that obliterates our failures. Repentance is not what is spoken in words but what is confirmed by deeds, the repentance that obliterates the filth of impiety from the heart.… Why "before my eyes"? Because the eyes of people see differently, and the eye of God sees differently.… "Do not adulterate repentance with pretense," he says, "but, before my eyes, which examine what is secret, reveal the fruits of repentance."”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.