Reference for Yoma 171:16

This is no difficulty: in the one case the reference is where they return out of love, in the other, out of fear.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Where the penitence is motivated by love, the return is complete leaving no trace of any taint, which is not the case where it is motivated by fear].');">²⁶</span> Rab Judah pointed out this contradiction: It is written: 'Return ye backsliding children , I will heal your backsliding', but it is also written: For I am a lord unto you. and I will take you one of a city. and two of a family?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. III, 14.');">²⁷</span> This is no contradiction: The one verse speaks [of a return] out of love or fear; the other, when it comes as a result of suffering. R'Levi said: Great is repentance, for it reaches up to the Throne of Glory, as it is said: Return, O Israel unto the Lord thy God.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hos. XIV, 2.');">²⁸</span>

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