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  • Postremo placuit exemplo multorum unum separatim hendecasyllaborum volumen absolvere, nec paenitet.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Justificare significat Apostolo in disputatione de justificatione, peccata remittere, a culpa et poena absolvere, in gratiam recipere, et justum pronunciare.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • In dictis Propheticis et Apostolicis, ubi de justificatione fidei agitur, vocabula 'justificare' et 'justificari' non idem, esse ac a peccatis absolvere et absolvi, et remissionem peccatorum consequi: sed nos per caritatem, a Spiritu Sancto infusam, per virtutes et per opera, quae a caritate promanant, reipsa coram Deo justos fieri.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Damnantur et Novatiani, qui nolebant absolvere lapsos post Baptismum redeuntes ad poenitentiam.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Justificare significat Apostolo in disputatione de justificatione, peccata remittere, a culpa et poena absolvere, in gratiam recipere, et justum pronunciare.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Praeter hos errores rejicimus et Semipelagianorum falsum dogma, qui docent, hominem propriis viribus inchoare posse suam conversionem: absolvere autem sine Spiritus Sancti gratia non posse.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • We believe, teach, and confess that the word justify in this phrasi Scripturae Sacrae, in hoc articulo, idem significare, quod absolvere a peccatis, ut ex dicto Salomonis (Prov.xvii. 15) intelligi potest: 'Qui justificat impium, et qui condemnat justum, abominabilis est uterque apud Deum.'

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Praeter hos errores rejicimus et Semipelagianorum falsum dogma, qui docent, hominem propriis viribus inchoare posse suam conversionem: absolvere autem sine Spiritus Sancti gratia non posse.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • And on p. 115 he writes: "Utinam contigisset absolvere ante errorem filii; neque enim ille errasset, nec errandi causam aliquam habuisset: nec, etiamsi errasset, periisset."

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • * Mos erat antiquns, niveis atrisque lapillis, His damnare reos, illis absolvere culpae.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

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