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 1   2       | Testament and the topic of the confession of faults as found in the
 2   2,  1   |  biblical texts related to the confession of sins: Who is confessing
 3   2,  1   |       principal categories of “confession texts,” each of which embraces
 4   2,  1   |       sub-categories, viz., a) confession texts of individual sins,
 5   2,  1   |        individual sins, and b) confession texts of sins of the entire
 6   2,  1   | depending on who is making the confession of the sins of the people
 7   2,  1   |      group of texts places the confession - directed to God - of the
 8   2   (33)|       of this type of national confession are: 2 Kgs 22:13 (cf. 2
 9   2,  1   |    fathers” are mentioned, the confession is addressed solely to God,
10   2,  1   |        and is expressed in the confession before God of the “sins
11   3,  3   |      wrinkles. But by means of confession the wrinkles are smoothed
12   3,  3   |        order to be purified by confession and, as long as men live
13   3,  3   |        petition begins with a ‘confession’ of our wretchedness and
14   3,  3   |       faith in God through the confession of her children’s sins and
15   5,  1   |       to arrive instead at the confession of the God whose “mercy
16   5,  2   |     East and West) represent a confession of the fault contained in