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 1   1,  2   |    against unity, the Council Fathers state, “we ask pardon of
 2   2   (33)|      of the Lord “because our fathers did not heed the words of
 3   2   (33)|       6-7 (Hezekiah says “our fathers have been unfaithful”);
 4   2   (33)|       31:29 and Ez 18:2: “The fathers have eaten sour grapes and
 5   2,  1   |  cases where the “sins of the fathers” are mentioned, the confession
 6   2   (34)|     and the iniquity of their fathers”); Ezr 9:5b-15 (the penitential
 7   2   (34)|      7: “From the days of our fathers to this day we have been
 8   2   (34)|     my errors and those of my fathers” [v. 3] and continues with
 9   2   (34)|     to us the offenses of our fathers…deliver us and forgive us
10   2   (34)|       106:6 (“both we and our fathers have sinned”); Jer 3:25 (“…
11   2   (34)|      Lord our God… we and our fathers”); Jer 14:19-22 (“We acknowledge
12   2   (34)|       and the iniquity of our fathers,” v. 20); Lam 5 (“Our fathers
13   2   (34)| fathers,” v. 20); Lam 5 (“Our fathers sinned and they are no more,
14   2   (34)|     not the iniquities of our fathers” [3:5, cf. 2:33; 3:4,7]);
15   2   (34)|       and the iniquity of our fathers, Jerusalem […has] become
16   2,  1   |       sins committed by their fathers, given their strong sense
17   2,  1   |       God of the “sins of the fathers,” such that John Paul II
18   2,  1   |        O Lord, the God of our fathers... For we have sinned and
19   2,  1   |       sins committed by their fathers. The Church imitates their
20   3,  3   |       distinction prompts the Fathers to make sharp statements
21   3,  4   |       conception of the early Fathers of the Church sums up the
22   3,  4   |      Thus, she is seen by the Fathers of the Church to be the