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|<span id="16:19"></span>And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
 
|<span id="16:19"></span>And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
 
|"And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven. Whatever you make binding on earth will be binding in heaven, and whatever you set loose on earth will be set loose in heaven."
 
|"And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven. Whatever you make binding on earth will be binding in heaven, and whatever you set loose on earth will be set loose in heaven."
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|Likely granting the church authority or alluding to the church being able to grant absolution of sins (see also John 20:23), as to bind and loose is a term meaning [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_and_loosing to permit or forbid by unquestionable authority].
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|Does this foretell the effect of the observer on eliminating uncertainty in [[quantum mechanics]], which was not discovered until 2000 years later?
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A traditional theological rather than scientific interpretation is that this grants authority to a church to absolve sins (see also John 20:23), or decline to do so.
 
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