| Peter GANDOLPHY - 1815 - 552 pages
...sent me, I also send you. When he had said (his, he breathed on them ; aud he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose sins ye shall forgive, they are forgiven them : and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained. Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called... | |
| Robert Meek - 1834 - 436 pages
...sacrament? A. After his rising from the dead, when he breathed on his disciples, saying, ' Receive ye the Holy Ghost : whose sins ye shall forgive, they are forgiven them ; and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained.' (John xx. 23.) — Q. What is the matter... | |
| Joseph Reeve - 1835 - 504 pages
...ordained by our blessed Redeemer for the remission of sins, when he said to his apostles; "Receive ye the Holy Ghost;* whose sins ye shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained." They believed, that a juridical power over... | |
| Nicholas Patrick S. Wiseman (card, abp. of Westminster.) - 1836 - 612 pages
...which have preceded it. LECTURE THE ELEVENTH. ON SATISFACTION AND PURGATORY. JOHN xx. 23. " Receive ye the Holy Ghost ; whose sins ye shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained." I OBSERVED, my brethren, in my opening discourse,... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1836 - 402 pages
...blessing may rest on you nil ! LECTURE XI. PENANCE SATISFACTION AND PURGATORY. JOHN XI. 23. "Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins ye shall forgive, they are forgiven them : and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained." I OBSERVED, my brethren, in my opening discourse... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1836 - 266 pages
...Same Subject— Part III 201 LECTURE THE TENTH. ON THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE. JOHN xx. 23. " Receive ye the Holy Ghost ; whose sins ye shall forgive, they are forgiven them, and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained." I SHALL this day endeavour to explain to... | |
| John Lingard - 1841 - 192 pages
...he conferred on hia apostles. Peace be to you. As (he Father hath sent me, I also send you. Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins ye shall forgive, they are forgiven to them, and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained. (John xx. 21-23.) The Scripture, indeed,... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 pages
...successors, the bishops and priests of the catholic church, in these words, when he said, ' Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins ye shall forgive, they are forgiven unto them, &c." ABSOLUTION is chiefly used among Protestants for a sentence, by which a person who... | |
| E. S. A. - 1848 - 156 pages
...throw up the office committed to them ; for when the Lord himself has said in the Gospel, ' Receive ye the Holy Ghost : whose sins ye shall forgive, they are forgiven them ; and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained ;' who is it that honours Him more, he that... | |
| Giovanni Battista Pagani - 1849 - 474 pages
...words He included the power of forgiving sins, He immediately breathed upon them, and said : " Receive ye the Holy Ghost ; whose sins ye shall forgive, they are forgiven them ; and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained ;"T by which words we see that, in the clearest... | |
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