Verse 5
5. Righteousness and judgment The principle and the administration of justice. The Septuagint, followed by the Vulgate, renders tsedakkah ( righteousness,) by ελεημοσυνη , ( mercy,) whence comes our word eleemosynory: “He loves mercy and judgment.” So, also, in Psalms 24:5; Deuteronomy 6:25; Deuteronomy 24:13; which shows that the Hebrew word allowed this meaning, and that “judgment,” which is the execution of justice, and mercy, which remits the penalty, are alike dear to God. To the wicked his righteousness is manifested in judgment; to the righteous it presents the aspect of mercy like the cloud of Jehovah at the Red Sea.
The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord Full of the tokens of his good will, especially to man. This doctrine is one of pure revelation. Science, in its broadest views, corroborates it, but no human philosophy ever reached it, as is shown in the polytheistic and dualistic theories of the origin of evil.
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