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St. [[John of the Ladder]] writes:
:"At no time do we find God revealing the sins which have been confessed to Him, lest by making these public knowledge, He should impede those who would confess and so make them incurably sick."<ref>St. John of the Ladder, ''The Ladder of Divine Ascent''(Homily to the Shepherd), trans. Fr. Lazarus Moore (Brookline, MA: Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 1979), p. 243.(This homily is missing from the English translation of Fr. Lazarus Moore)</ref>
The Byzantine [[Nomocanon]] states, in Canon 120: