单词 | remitter of sins |
释义 | > as lemmasremitter of sins 1. More fully remitter of sins. A person or divine being who forgives or pardons. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > forgiveness > [noun] > one who forgives forgiver?c1225 remitter1548 pardoner1581 condoner1869 1548 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Luke in Paraphr. New Test. iii. f. xlv Thoughe I do baptise you with water, yet am I no remitter of sinnes [L. tamen non remitto peccata], I am..a preparer of you to a baptisme of more efficacie and vertue. ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter xli. 120 Most gentle remitter of sinne almighty God. 1586 W. Fulke Against Allen 143 Not properlie pardoners, forgiuers, or remitters of sinnes. 1650 E. Leigh Annot. New Test. 61 Not ceremonies, for the Pharisees did abound in them, but justification by workes, looking for Christ a temporall King, and not a remitter of sinnes. a1664 M. Frank LI Serm. (1672) 438 They make him both the healer of our nature, and the preserver of it, the remitter of our sins, and the conferrer of Grace. 1782 C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibern. III. 503 This appears to be the root of the Latin Druidas, Welsh, Drud, a Druid, i. e. the Absolver or Remitter of Sins. 1827 G. Croly Apocalypse of St. John 118 The sitter on its throne..assumed the attributes of Deity, proclaimed himself infallible, the remitter of sins, Lord of the gates of Hell and Heaven. 1897 G. Murray Hist. Anc. Greek Lit. v. 118 Outside and beyond the official temple-worship, there was the private and unauthorised preacher and prophet, the holder of mysteries, the seller of oracles, the remitter of sins. 1917 G. S. Hall Jesus in Light of Psychol. ix. 572 Jesus, the great remitter of man's debts of sin. 1954 Monumenta Nipponica 10 86 The Ruler of Earth, controlling the seventh to the ninth month, is a Remitter of Sins. 1988 G. S. Sloyan John v. 225 By the Spirit's power Jesus is making his disciples corporately remitters of sin. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。