518 Jn 20:22-23.

519 Mk 16:15-16.

520 Rom 6:4; Cf. 4:25.

521 Roman Catechism I, 11,3.

522 Roman Catechism I, 11,4.

523 Council Of Trent (1551): DS 1672; Cf. St. Gregory Of Nazianzus, Oratio 39,17: PG 36,356.

524 Lk 24:47.

525 2 Cor 5:18.

526 St. Augustine, Sermo 214, 11: PL 38, 1071-1072.

527 Roman Catechism I, 11, 5.

528 Cf. Mt 18:21-22.

529 Cf. St. Ambrose, De poenit. I, 15: PL 16, 490.

530 John Chrysostom, De sac. 3, 5: PG 48, 643.

531 St. Augustine, Sermo 213, 8: PL 38,1064.