 | John Cumming - 1843 - 230 Seiten
...volume. And in the same second book of Maccabees, we read that " it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." In other portions of the Apocrypha, especially in the book of Tobias (which has been received as an... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1843 - 602 Seiten
...have seemed superfluous and vain to pray for the dead. It is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.1-' (vv. 43-46.) Many will say that the second Book of Maccabees is not part of the Scripture... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1844 - 282 Seiten
...this point, held the same faith as the Catholics: — "It is therefore a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." We cannot wonder that such a belief should be thus ancient, for assuredly none can be more natural... | |
 | London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1845 - 828 Seiten
...the dead ; " and the gloss of the author he adds, — " That it is a pious and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." Whence he infers, 1. That the dead may be loosed from their sins ; and therefore there is a purgatory.... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1846 - 838 Seiten
...asleep with godliness had greasf grace laid up for them. It is therefore a holv and wholesome thought to pray for the dead," that they may be loosed from their sins. GOSPEL. John vi. 37. 40. At that time: Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews: All that the Father... | |
 | John Milner - 1846 - 338 Seiten
...which narration, the inspired writer concludes thus; "It is therefore a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." — 2 Mach. xii. 46. I need not point out the inseparable connection there is between the practice... | |
 | Distinct view - 1846 - 74 Seiten
...thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection it is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins." 2 Mac., c. xii., y, 43, It is true that Protestants do not admit those books to be canonical scripture,... | |
 | John Milner - 1846 - 354 Seiten
...which narration, the inspired writer concludes thus; "It is therefore a holy and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins."—2 Mach. xii. 46. I need not point out the inseparable connection there is between the practice... | |
 | William Elfe Tayler - 1847 - 388 Seiten
...And then we find a text quoted from the Maccabees — ' It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins.' Then follow the regulations. I copy only the second and the ninth : one shewing the method of raising... | |
 | 1847 - 492 Seiten
...think did some good. I send the inscription upon the headstone—" It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins." The Secretary of the Westminster Auxiliary thus writes—" Mr. R— and Mr. F— have been during the... | |
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It is, therefore, a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins. 
