Ludolph the Carthusian Part 1 Chapter 37 - The Sermon on the Mount continued: The Lord's Prayer - page 700 - translated by Milton Walsh -
"And Jesus adds, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Behold the rule proposed to us: if we want to be forgiven our sins, we must first forgive the sins committed against us by our neighbour!
According to Gregory [Moralia 10.XV.30] the good we must seek from God with a contrite heart we must first bestow on our neighbour.
Cyrpian writes:
"He who taught us to pray for our sins has promised his paternal mercy; but he has clearly added a Law, binding us with a clear stipulation, that we ask for our sins to be forgiven in the same way that we forgive those who sin against us."
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