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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images 'He's one of us': Absolver in chief Silvio Berlusconi.
The Secret to Berlusconi's Dolce Vita Beppe Severgnini 2011
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This presumptuous Absolver would make men careless about both.
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson
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God; he specializes what is universal; as in baptism, he seals the universal Sonship on the individual by name, saying, "The Sonship with which Christ has redeemed all men, I hereby proclaim for this child;" so by absolution he specializes the universal fact of the love of God to those who are listening then and there, saying, "The Love of God the Absolver, I authoritatively proclaim to be _yours_."
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson
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Shall we say it is all blasphemy; an impious intrusion upon the prerogatives of the One Absolver?
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson
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Church absolution is an eternal protest, in the name of God the Absolver, against the false judgments of society.
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson
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Perhaps confessing to the Great Absolver the sinless sins which bore no crimson stain, and praying His favor for the ones she loved.
The Love Story of Abner Stone Edwin Carlile Litsey 1922
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But as sin was the greatest evil of man, and as Jesus came to remove from us our greatest evils, He came into the world chiefly as the great Absolver from sin.
The Faith of Our Fathers James Gibbons 1877
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Absolver demands of us is, that we kneel down before Him and condemn ourselves.
Sermons. Volume The Fourth. 1808-1892 1850
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_Absolver_, for all Pious quotation, has follow'd St. _Cyprian_'s
Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688
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Audience laugh at his figure at the end of the Play, as well as they had at the beginning; but I believe if I had put an _Absolver_ upon his back, giving him a Blessing, it would have been more divertive by half; but let him alone, the next horrible Crime is, I meddle with Churchmen, and there my _malice makes me_, he says, _lay about me like a Knight
Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688
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