What does this quote mean?

“Through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:”

Forgiveness is announced as the central offer of the message, framing pardon as something proclaimed and received rather than concealed behind moral achievement.

Source note: Acts 13:38, King James Version; Paul’s speech at Antioch presents forgiveness as part of the message he is declaring to his listeners.

“I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Pardon is paired with refusing to keep wrongdoing permanently present, making forgiveness a movement away from endless moral accounting toward restored relationship.

Source note: Jeremiah 31:34, King James Version; the promise appears in the description of a new covenant and includes forgiveness and no further remembrance of sin.

“Tho’ much is taken, much abides.”

Loss and limitation are acknowledged without allowing them to erase what remains possible or valuable.

Source note: Ulysses, near the close of the poem.

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”

Joy and sorrow are treated as connected experiences: the capacity to feel one often grows from having known the other deeply.

Source note: The Prophet, “On Joy and Sorrow.”

“Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.”

The short instruction treats forgiveness as a practice rather than merely a feeling: release is something a person does in response to another person’s fault.

Source note: Luke 6:37 in the King James Version; excerpt from the verse’s instruction about judgment and forgiveness.

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

The seasonal image turns hardship into a temporary phase: decline can contain the possibility of renewal even when that renewal is not yet visible.

Source note: Final line of Ode to the West Wind; the changing seasons become a metaphor for historical and personal renewal.