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Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
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Verse 17. They received the Holy Ghost. Not but that they had received the grace of the Holy Ghost at their baptism; but not that plentitude of grace, and those gifts, which they received from bishops in the sacrament of confirmation. This sacrament, as Saint John Chrysostom observes, [2] S. Philip, the deacon, had not power to give. Witham.
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