 | 1835 - 360 pages
...22 When he had said this : he breathed on them ; and he said to them : Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23 Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them...and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained. *4 Now Thomas one of the twelve, who is called Didymns, was not with them when JESUS came. 25 The other... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1836 - 402 pages
...to their successors, and which are to be perpetuated in the church. What then did he tell them ? " Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them...and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." There is, in the first place, a power to forgive sins, and this expression, " to forgive sins," in... | |
 | Peter Augustine Baines - 1836 - 22 pages
...Christ breathed on his apostles, and said to them, " Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." — (John xx. 23). He had before said to the same apostles, " Whatsoever you shall bind on earth, it shall be bound also... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1838 - 724 pages
...bound also in heaven, and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth shall be loosed also in heaven,' (Matt, xviii. 18,) and, ' Whose sins you shall forgive, they...sins by voluntary confession, to whomsoever made. The council further teaches, that even those priests who are living in mortal sin, exercise the function... | |
 | 1838 - 418 pages
...minutes in returning thanks for the favour he has received and imploring the necessary graces. PENANCE. "Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them:...shall retain, they are retained." — John, xx. 23. All the faithful of both sexes who have reached the age of discretion, are obliged to confess their... | |
 | 1838 - 562 pages
...accursed. "3. Whoever shall affirm that the words of the Lord our Saviour, 'Receive ye the Holy Ghost ; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain, they are reiained ;' are not to be understood of the power of forgiving nnd retaining sins in the sacrament... | |
 | 1838 - 576 pages
...penance, for those who may fall into sin after baptism, when he said, ' receive ye the Holy Ghost 5 whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them ; and whose sins you ehall retain, they are retained,' John xx. 22, 23. Therefore we must teach that the penance of a Christian... | |
 | John Henry Hopkins (bp. of Vermont.) - 1839 - 430 pages
...and the last. All the apostles are breathed upon; all receive the Holy Ghost; to all it is said, " Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them;...and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." Peter has his part among the rest in the powers of this high commission ; but there is no more hint... | |
 | John Mockett Cramp - 1839 - 508 pages
...accursed. " 3. Whoever shall affirm, that the words of the Lord our Saviour, ' Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them;...and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained,' are not to be understood of the power of forgiving and retaining sins in the sacrament of penance,... | |
 | John Mockett Cramp - 1840 - 208 pages
...penance, when, after his resurrection, he breathed on his disciples, saying, ' Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them...sins you shall retain, they are retained,' John xx. 22, 23. By this remarkable action, and by these express words, as the fathers have by universal consent... | |
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Peace be to you: as the Father hath sent me, I also send you. When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained. 
