...this he breathed OH them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the HOLY GHOSX Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained."* Nothing surely can be more obvious the meaning of this language. " As my hath sent...

...forth his disciples to preach, after having " breathed on them," he said, " Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." (s) I shall offer an interpretation of this passage, without any subtilty, violence,...

...resurrection, when he breathed on them the holy ghost, he said unto them. " Whose soever sins ye " remit, they are remitted unto them, " and whose soever sins ye retain, they " are retained." These passages do not imply .that the apostles were to have either an arbitrary or...

...and to remove, and in some cases to inflict, calamities. John xx. 23, " Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." Compare Matt, xviii. 1 8. 13 In IB it Their principle indeed was right, but their application...

...he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye thé Holy Ghost. 23 Whoae soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they areretained. 24 But Thomas, une of thé twelve, cailed Didymua, wai uyt them v.lieu Jésus came. 2A...

...he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. 83 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. 24 IT But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came....

...and his glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 21SERMON XVI. JOHN xx. 23. Whose soever tint ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. HAVING, in my last Sermon on the Liturgy of our Church, proceeded to the end of the General...

...Receive //c the Holy Ghost ; whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained." There, no more is given to St. Peter than to any other apostle, n i-.NM .. , t i. i .' i i- !MTI • " i ', r;i to ( ;•-. li 431 Fabulous Foundation of the PopeJom....

...Behold, I die, but God shall be with you." 152 REMARKS ON JOHN XX. 23. " Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." The ministers of the church of Rome found on this and on other similar passages of Holy...

...and can only say, that it is obvious our Saviour intended by the words " whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained" — to convey to the Apostles the power, simply, of exercising discipline in the churches...