The Moving Thumb of Jesus

Is there a deeper meaning to repentance?

During many hours of research for a new book on the life of Jesus, I stumbled upon a new word from the art world that I hadn’t known before. Pentimento, from the Italian, is a term used by art restorers, much aided in recent years by advances in X-ray and infrared photography. Directly related to the verb pentirsi, to repent, the expression comes into p…