And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them,
Receive you the Holy Spirit:
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Cyprian of Carthage
AD 258
And again, in the Gospel, when Christ breathed on the apostles alone, saying, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit: whose soever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained."