Chapter 12.—22. Pomponius of Dionysiana1791
| 1791 Dionysiana was in ecclesiastical province of Byzacium. The name of Pomponius occurs in Cypr. Epp. iv., lvii., lxvii., lxx.
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said: "It is manifest that
heretics cannot
baptize and give
remission of
sins, seeing that no
power is given to them that they should be able either to loose or
bind anything on
earth."
1792
| 1792 Conc. Carth. sec. 48.
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23. The answer is: This power is not given to murderers either, that is, to those who hate their brothers. For it was not said to such as these, "whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained."1793
And yet they baptize, and both Paul tolerates them in the same communion of baptism, and Cyprian acknowledges them.
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