Or else it would be natural to ask, Is it because the offices and functions of Judaism were more formal, more perfunctory than ours, that a greater spiritual grace went with their appointments than with the laying on of hands in the Christian Church, a rite so clearly sanctioned in the New Testament?
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
That is, I haven't sanctioned it, and I believe there's nobody holding a share in the project who would go back on us.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
I had already lost too much of my precious time on her account, she said; she felt much better, and now that she knew my orders, no one should induce her to do anything I had not sanctioned.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse