The notorious footnote boggles everyone because it is so inapt for actually answering the presumed question. Nevertheless, since repentance in a constitutive element of every valid Confession, a call to Confession is a call to repentance. The words -— the actual words, ebb tide -— do not contradict this.
The fault is in the elision.
Please try to comprehend that.
No, it does not boggle everyone. Those with eyes to see and ears to hear know exactly what the footnote means and they have started a fire of resistance. In my opinion, you're manning a hose to put out said fire.
It’s funny how you’re bringing up Confession and sincere repentance, when AL never did, or glossed over it.