...earth shall be loosed in heaven ; and the words to the apostles in general, f Whose soever sins ye remit,' they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained. To this if we add a passage, similar in expression, and equally extensive in import, the...

...send 1 you. And when he had said, this, he breathed on them, .and saith unto them, Receive ye die. Holy Ghost : Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted...unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained. 1 Or this: $t. Matt, xxviii. 18* JESUS came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given...

...shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven," saith the Saviour in the text. " Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained unto them," saith he, John xx. 33, and also in the life to come ; therefore the apostle saith,...

...among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them : and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.. ANNOTATIONS AND REFLECTIONS. Impatient to communicate the happy news of his resurrection,...

...passage on which they ground their power of absolution is that in John xx, 23 — " Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained." But this is not to the purpose ; since this was a special commission to the apostles themselves,...

...father hath sent me, even. so send I you. And when he had said this,. he breathed on them, saying, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whosesoever sins ye remit, they, are remitted unto them; and whosesoever tins ye retain, they are retained. (John, xx. 21 — 23.) This power of absolution and authoritative...

...extraordinarily qualified for declaring it. Our Lord therefore immediately added, " Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained."* This was language which could not with propriety be used, respecting the sentiments or...

...in heaven, and whatsoever ye shall looss on earth shall be loosed in heaven : Whose-soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained. (p) The Lord appointed other seventy also ; and sent them forth as labourers into his harvest....

...bound in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.* Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.^ Now, I will put it to the candor of any man of impartiality and of reason, if, in' this...

...said this, breathed on them, and saith unto themj Reeeive ye the Holy Ghost; 23 Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained. 24 1 But Thomas, one of the twelve, ealled Didymus, was not with them when Jesus eame. 25...