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(noun) - Power of "binding and loosing" - that is, of excluding from or admitting into Paradise - claimed by the Pope in his character as St. Peter's successor, grounded on Mathew, 16:19 "And I will give onto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on the earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on the earth shall be loosed in heaven". The power or authority to administer the discipline of the Church, and to communicate or withhold its privileges.
--Rev. James Stormonth's Dictionary of the English Language, 1884
January 15, 2018