Penance

[Gene Silva]

Andrea

I have been doing some research on the history of Christian pilgrimages for
a talk I am giving tomorrow so the source materials were on my desk. Since
Leonie asked for "thoughts on the subject" of penance it took maybe three
minutes to find several references on point.

Gene

Subject: Penance


> Gene,
>
> How is it you know of these etymologies?
> "apostrepho" or "epistrepho"; that is, "I turn back on the road I have
been
> traveling, I change my mind (metamelomai), I repent (metanoia)"
> Being the "wanna be linguist" that I am...
> I had to ask.
>
> Andrea