The Power of Binding and Loose

Rabbinical body of each age, or in the sanhedrin, received itsratification and final santi sanction from the celestial court of justice. The various schools had the power to bind and loose, to forbid and to permit. Just as they could, by the power vested in them, pronounce and revoke an anathema upon a person. And we know that paul issues anathemas in the new testament.