unwilling to be converted to better things or to return to the Father, their Creator; and let them hear: “From now on call to me, ‘My Father—you are the guide of my virginity.’ ” He himself has pledged your soul in marriage with his embraces, and he teaches the soul how it should pray and repent. As great as the mercy of the one who shows the way of wholeness after there has been fornication, so great is the wretchedness of the harlot who does not wish to receive healing after she has been wounded.