 | John Lingard - 1841 - 192 pages
...also for the dead. 11. Is it then lawful to pray for the dead ? Yes : " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." (2 Mac. xii. 46.) 10. For all mankind. — / exhort that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and... | |
 | Pierre Dens - 1841 - 540 pages
...sin is signified : in which sense it is said, 2 Mace. xii. 46. ' It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought, to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins.' Also, when an indulgence from the guilt and penalty is said to be granted, the power of absolving... | |
 | William Patrick Palmer - 1842 - 500 pages
...have seemed superfluous and vain " to pray for the dead. It is, therefore, a holy ' ' and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that " they may be loosed from their sins. (xii. 43 — 46.) " .... It proves therefore, that, at the time of the " Maccabees, the conviction... | |
 | 1842 - 728 pages
...church, they share in the communion of saints ; and the scripture says, " It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sine." 2 Mace. xii. 46. Q. What shall I do that I may have life everlasting ? A. " If thou wilt enter... | |
 | Joseph Rathborne - 1842 - 90 pages
...our pious solicitude, he should be a frequent subject of our prayers, for "it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." And now having ascended this pulpit, the chair of Catholic doctrine and truth; in this temple,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1843 - 230 pages
...sacred volume. And in the same second book of Maccabees, we read that " it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." In other portions of the Apocrypha, especially in the book of Tobias (which has been received as an... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1843 - 602 pages
...would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead. It is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.1-' (vv. 43-46.) Many will say that the second Book of Maccabees is not part of the Scripture... | |
 | Charles Constantine Pise - 1843 - 402 pages
...would have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead. It is therefore a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins." The question, therefore, is resolved, to this point : are the books of Maccabees a portion of... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1844 - 282 pages
...Jews, on this point, held the same faith as the Catholics: — "It is therefore a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." We cannot wonder that such a belief should be thus ancient, for assuredly none can be more natural... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins - 1844 - 408 pages
...dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection. It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sin." Now there is one serious difficulty about this whole matter, namely, that the book in which it... | |
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It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. 
