Ap. XII, 156: We have said before that the saints suffer penalties which are the work of God, like contrition or terrors of conscience, as well as other common troubles. Some of them suffer penalties which God imposes only on them, for the sake of example. These penalties have nothing to do with the power of the keys because the keys can neither impose nor remit them; God imposes and remits them apart from the administration of the keys (Tappert 207).