Assertion: absolution | /r/CapableOf | place the agency
Facets:
value: with god
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The offices of the earliest Books of Common Prayer contained an absolution that read both as assurance of pardon, placing the agency with God ("He [God] pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent"), and as priestly mediation (God "hath given power and commandment to his ministers to declare and pronounce to his people...the absolution and remission of their sins").
text: The offices of the earliest Books of Common Prayer contained an absolution that read both as assurance of pardon, placing the agency with God (“He [God] pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent”), and as priestly mediation (God “hath given power and commandment to his ministers to declare and pronounce to his people…the absolution and remission of their sins”).