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No Justice Without Mercy; No Mercy Without Justice | Professor Gary Anderson

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The Importance of Mercy-Trumping Justice

Jonah's error should not be confined to his rigid moralism. He also erred in his arrogant supposition that he knew better than God how to calibrate the tension between remission of sin and its punishment. In this way, the book of Jonah anticipates the wisdom of Ben-Sira though God is both merciful and wrathful. The relationship between the two cannot be forecasted.

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