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" Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained... "
Thinking about Faith: Speculative Theology - Page 150
by Tibor Horvath - 2006 - 384 pages
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The Riverside New Testament: A Translation from the Original Greek Into the ...

William Gay Ballantine - Bible - 1928 - 468 pages
...the Father sent me forth so I am sending you." When he had said this, he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins...If you retain the sins of any, they are retained." Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus (the Twin), was not with them when Jesus came. The other...
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The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

Theodore Gerhardt Tappert - Religion - 1959 - 742 pages
...retain sins, and to administer the sacrathis command, "As the Father has sent me, even so I send you. Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of...if you retain the sins of any, they are retained" (John 20:21-23). This power of keys or of bishops is used and exercised only by 8 teaching and preaching...
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Seasons of Celebration

Thomas Merton - Religion - 1965 - 262 pages
...has sent me, even so I send you." And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins...if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." (John 20:19-23) This is to be seen not only as the institution of the Sacrament of Penance, which of...
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Jesus in the Church's Gospels: Modern Scholarship and the Earliest Sources

John Henry Paul Reumann - Religion - 1968 - 568 pages
...but exclusion or admission to membership on the basis of the community's confession; cf. John 20:23: "If you forgive, the sins of any, they are forgiven;...if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." To "loose" or forgive sins is to admit to the community; to bind or retain them has to do with excluding...
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Jesus the Christ

Walter Kasper - Religion - 1977 - 324 pages
...out by explaining the new band of disciples as the place where forgiveness of sins is 158 possible: 'If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven;...if you retain the sins of any, they are retained' (20.23l. Accordingly, reacceptance into the company of the disciples is also a sign of reacceptance...
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A Harmony of the Gospels

Ralph Daniel Heim - Religion - 1947 - 228 pages
...you." 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 2S If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven;...if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." 24 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. 2B So the other...
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The Church

G. C. Berkouwer - Religion - 1976 - 444 pages
...related to the forgiveness of sins. The Scriptures speak of the forgiveness of sin as a human deed: "lf you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained" (John 20:23). Kiimmel considers it "hardly thinkable that Jesus would have granted such full empowerment,...
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Origen

Origen - Religion - 1979 - 324 pages
...in the Gospel of John the words about the power of forgiveness given the apostles read as follows, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins...you retain the sins of any, they are retained" (Jn. 20:22-23). If someone were to take this in an unexamined sense, he might charge the apostles with not...
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On the Holy Spirit

Saint Basil (Bishop of Caesarea) - Holy Spirit - 1980 - 124 pages
...restoring the grace which Adam had lost, which God breathed into him in the beginning) what did He say? "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins...if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." "1 Is it not indisputably clear that the Church is set in order by the Holy Spirit? "God has ap1" Jn....
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Augsburg Confession

Theodore G. Tappert - Religion - 68 pages
...For Christ sent out the apostles with this command, "As the Father has sent me, even so I send you. Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of...if you retain the sins of any, they are retained" (John 20:21-23). the gospel is the. power cfQod... This power of keys or of bishops is used and exercised...
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