In Genesis 21:14, this signifies the state of wandering in the beginning, of people who have been introduced into the doctrinals of faith. (Arcana Coelestia 2679)
Scriptural Confirmations # 82
82. REPENTANCE.
1. Do repentance and be baptized (Acts of the Apostles 2:38).
Do repentance and be converted that your sins may be blotted out for you (Acts of the Apostles 3:19).
To give repentance to Israel and the remission of sins (Acts of the Apostles 5:31).
Paul said to the Athenians that God commanded all men everywhere to repent (Acts of the Apostles 17:30).
That those who have once earnestly repented and tasted of the heavenly gift, etc., and then fall away again, cannot again be renewed unto repentance (Hebrews 6:4-8).
Various things about repentance (Revelation 2:5, 16, 22; 3:3, 19).
Except ye repent ye shall all perish (Luke 13:3, 5).
The joy of the angels over one that repents (Luke 15:7, 10): and of the lost son who repented (verses 11 to the end).
From the Prophets
That worship and prayer are vanity unless they purify themselves from evils, and what they are when purified (Isaiah 1:11-20).
Is not this the fast? to loose the bands of wickedness? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: thy justice shall go before thee; the glory of Jehovah shall gather thee. Thy light shall rise in darkness, and thy thick darkness be as noonday. Jehovah shall lead thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, so that thou shalt be as a watered garden, and as a spring of waters. And thou shalt delight thyself in Jehovah (Isaiah 58:6, 10-11, 14).
Hebrews 6:4-8
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For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
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and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
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and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
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For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;
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but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
