Ignoscere

God just spoke to me through my textbook: "Si Deum nobis ignoscere volumus, nos debemus aliis hominibus ignoscere."... Well, actually, mihi ignovisti ut aliis ignoscere possim. Guess I know what to do.

If you saw this on my facebook status, you may wonder what it means.

"Si Deum nobis ignoscere volumus, nos debemus aliis hominibus ignoscere." means "If we want God to forgive us, we ought to forgive other men."

Then I thought, although we ought to forgive others, yet it is not because we want to be forgiven.

Mihi ignovisti ut aliis ignoscere possim. Id est, you have forgiven me so that I am able to forgive others.

I will try.