μετάνοια, 
μετανοίας, 
ἡ (
μετανοέω), 
a change of mind: as it appears in one who repents of a purpose he has formed or of something he has done, 
Hebrews 12:17 on which see 
εὑρίσκω, 3 ((
Thucydides 3, 36, 3); 
Polybius 4, 66, 7; 
Plutarch, Peric c. 10; mor., p. 26 a.; 
τῆς ἀδελφοκτονιας μετάνοια, 
Josephus, Antiquities 13, 11, 3); especially the change of mind of those who have begun to abhor their errors and misdeeds, and have determined to enter upon a better course of life, so that it embraces both a recognition of sin and sorrow for it and hearty amendment, the tokens and effects of which are good deeds (
Lactantius, 6, 24, 6 would have it rendered in Latin by
resipiscentia) (
A. V. repentance): 
Matthew 3:8, 
11; 
Luke 3:8, (16 Lachmann); 
Luke 15:7; 
Luke 24:47; 
Acts 26:20; 
βάπτισμα μετανοίας, a baptism binding its subjects to repentance (
Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 
β.), 
Mark 1:4; 
Luke 3:3; 
Acts 13:24; 
Acts 19:4; (
ἡ εἰς (
τόν) 
Θεόν μετάνοια, 
Acts 20:21, see 
μετανοέω, at the end); 
διδόναι τίνι μετάνοιαν, to give one the ability to repent, or to cause him to repent, 
Acts 5:31; 
Acts 11:18; 
2 Timothy 2:25; 
τινα εἰς μετάνοιαν καλεῖν, 
Luke 5:32, and 
Rec. in 
Matthew 9:13; 
Mark 2:17; 
ἄγειν, 
Romans 2:4 (
Josephus, Antiquities 4, 6, 10 at the end); 
ἀνακαινίζειν, 
Hebrews 6:6; 
χωρῆσαι εἰς μετάνοιαν, to come to the point of repenting, or be brought to repentance, 
2 Peter 3:9 (but see 
χωρέω, 1 at the end); 
μετάνοια ἀπό νεκρῶν ἔργων, that change of mind by which we turn from, desist from, etc. 
Hebrews 6:1 (
Buttmann, 322 (277)); used merely of the improved spiritual state resulting from deep sorrow for sin, 
2 Corinthians 7:9f (Sir. 44:16: Wis. 11:24 (23); Wisdom 12:10,19; Or. Man. Prayer of Manasseh 1:7f ((cf. the 
Sept. edition 
Tdf. Prolog., p. 112f)); 
Philo, qued det. pot. insid. § 26 at the beginning; 
Antoninus 8, 10; (
Cebes, tab. 10 at the end).) 
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