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but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 29. See S. Matthew 12:32.—Of an everlasting sin; that is of eternal punishment. Witham.—What is here called everlasting offence, is (as S. Matt. expresseth it) that which shall neither be remitted in this life, nor in the life to come; which words would not be true, says Saint Augustine, if some sins were not forgiven in the world to come. Now, as no mortal sin can be forgiven after death, there must necessarily be smaller transgressions, which we call venial; though many of our separated brethren will needs have all sins to be mortal; which is very far from a comfortable tenet.
NU reads, guilty of an eternal sin.
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