The Power of Prophecy: A Septuagintal Echo in John 20:19-23

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) CATHOLIC THEOLOGIANS commonly agree that the Council of Trent, although infallibly and definitively establishing the dogmatic meaning of John 20:22-23, did not thereby rule out further discussion concerning the original sense of this passage.1 In the terminology of the theory of Catholic biblical interpretation, the sacramental understanding of John 20:22-23 could well be seen as an instance of sensus plenior rather than the sensus litter alis to be established by historical-critical means.2 My aim in the present article is to make a new proposal concerning the latter of these two senses of John 20:19-23, that is, the meaning put into this text by its human author.