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according to that commission of Christ, Whose sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose ye shall retain, they are retained: and whatsoever thou shall bind upon earth, shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Now, as in the use of the keys the schoolmen following St. Jerome do account the minister to be the interpreter only of God's judgment, by declaring what is done by him in the binding or loosing of men's sins; so doth this author here give them power only to

And if the power which the ministers have received by the aforesaid commission do extend itself to any further real operation upon the living, Pope Gelasius will deny that it may be stretched in like manner unto the dead; because that Christ saith, Whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth.

And

saith Leo. Whether the dead received profit by the prayers of the living, was still a question in the Church. Maximus, in his Greek Scholies upon the writer of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, wisheth us to

Among the questions wherein Dulcitius desired to be resolved by St. Augustine, we find this to be one:

The like also is noted by Cyril, or rather John, Bishop of Jerusalem, that he