warrant

English translation: justification/confirmation

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English term or phrase:warrant
Selected answer:justification/confirmation
Entered by: Ana Juliá

16:05 Mar 4, 2019
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Religion / About the study of church history
English term or phrase: warrant
But what say we of the fathers, Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, Cyprian, etc.? What shall we think of them, or what account may we make of them? They be interpreters of the word of God. They were learned men, and learned fathers; the instruments of the mercy of God, and vessels full of grace. We despise them not, we read them, we reverence them, and give thanks unto God for them. They were witnesses unto the truth, they were worthy pillars and ornaments in the church of God. Yet may they not be compared with the word of God. We may not build upon them: we may not make them the foundation and ***warrant*** of our conscience: we may not put our trust in them. Our trust is in the name of the Lord.
Ana Juliá
Spain
Local time: 23:54
justification/confirmation
Explanation:
In legal language warrant means a guarantee or security but, depending on the context, it can also be translated as justification or confirmation. I think confirmation fits best in your case, especially in view of the rest of the sentence, "you cannot put your trust in it".
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Tina Vonhof (X)
Canada
Local time: 16:54
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SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +4justification/confirmation
Tina Vonhof (X)
4 +1Reason/justification
Sina Salehi
3 +1the authoritative witness
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón


  

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
justification/confirmation


Explanation:
In legal language warrant means a guarantee or security but, depending on the context, it can also be translated as justification or confirmation. I think confirmation fits best in your case, especially in view of the rest of the sentence, "you cannot put your trust in it".


    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/warrant
Tina Vonhof (X)
Canada
Local time: 16:54
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard
2 hrs
  -> Thank you Phil.

agree  AllegroTrans
2 hrs
  -> Thank you Allegro.

agree  Yvonne Gallagher
9 hrs

agree  JohnMcDove
9 hrs
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Reason/justification


Explanation:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/conscience
As you see in the link above, conscience means the part of you that judges how moral your own actions are and makes you feel guilty about bad things that you have done or things you feel responsible for.
And warrant in one sense maeans "reason" or "justification" as you see in the link below.
So I think that here what is meant by the sentence is that we cannot trust those peoole's words as "justification" or "reason" for judging the actions we had done in our conscience.

Sina Salehi
Germany
Local time: 23:54
Native speaker of: Native in Persian (Farsi)Persian (Farsi)

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agree  JohnMcDove
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the authoritative witness


Explanation:
... of our conscience.

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 17:54
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christine Andersen
14 hrs
  -> Gracias Christine!
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