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The Ordinatio of John Duns Scotus
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Ordinatio. Book 4. Distinctions 14 - 42.
Book Four. Distinctions 14 - 42
Fourteenth Distinction
Question Four. Whether Guilt is Deleted by the Sacrament of Penitence
I. To the Question
B. Something is Contained under the Idea of the Aforesaid Name
1. It is Possible for Something to be Contained under the Idea of the Name

1. It is Possible for Something to be Contained under the Idea of the Name

197. The first is shown by this, that it is possible for God to absolve from sin, according to the article in the Apostles’ Creed ‘remission of sins’. And consequently it is possible to institute some sign for the absolution, and this an efficacious sign, the way ‘efficacious’ was expounded before in the material about the sacraments in general [Ord. IV d.2 nn.14, 27-32]; and, by parity of reason, to institute whatever words, and pronounced by whatever minister; and then the total possibility of the name is clear.