| 1868 - 468 páginas
...agent of our Lord Jesus Christ, acting by the power delegated to him, according to these words : ' Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them...shall retain, they are retained ? ' (John xx. 23.) " Protestants have put in circulation, in like manner, the following replies, but the Romauist has... | |
| Jesus Christ - 1868 - 454 páginas
...Our Lord gives His Apostles power to forgive sins. CONSIDERATION. Our Lord immediately continued, " Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them...and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." By these words, our Lord bestowed upon the Apostles and their lawfully ordained successors the wonderful... | |
| Thomas Edward Bridgett - 1869 - 360 páginas
...another Evangelist tells us of a power conferred : " Whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven, and whose sins you shall retain they are retained " (John xx. 23) ; and we question not but that those words are the germ of the mighty tree which spreads its branches... | |
| Adrien Nampon - 1869 - 770 páginas
...Father hath sent me, I also send you;" and breathing on them, He continued : Receive ye the Holy Ghost : Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them ; and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained." But how can a judge remit or retain sins aright ? The greatest... | |
| Thomas Francis Knox - 1870 - 140 páginas
...send you.' When He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them : ' Receive ye the Holy Ghost : whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them...sins you shall retain, they are retained " (John xx. 19, 21-23). The third passage is as follows : on the day of our Lord's Ascension, just as He was about... | |
| Christian doctrine, John B. BAGSHAWE - 1870 - 184 páginas
...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 (S. John xx. 20). Now are you clean by reason of the word, which I have spoken to you (S. John xv.... | |
| Pius Melia - 1870 - 166 páginas
...sins is commanded to Christians hy our Lord with His positive precept, when He said (John xx. 23) : " whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them,...and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." And in support of this doctrine, they quote the Acts of the Apostles (xix. 18), St. James (v. 15),... | |
| Pius Melia - 1870 - 168 páginas
...sins is commanded to Christians by our Lord with His positive precept, when He said (John xx. 23) : " whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them,...and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." And in support of tins doctrine, they quote the Acts of the Apostles (xix. 18), St. James (v. 15),... | |
| James Waterworth - 1871 - 496 páginas
...so I send you. When. He had said this, He breathed upon them, and said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost ; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them...sins you shall retain, they are retained.' (John, xx. 21-23.) Whence we learn that they only, who are set over the Church, and are appointed by the law of... | |
| Samuel Weed Barnum - 1871 - 1002 páginas
...sacrament of penance for those who fall into sin after baptism, when he said, ' Receive ye the Holy Ghost : whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them...sins you shall retain, they are retained ' (John xx, Mat. xvi. ) . Wherefore we must teach that the penance of a Christian man after his fall is very different... | |
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