by love when David said of his parricide son: “Spare the boy Absolom.”110 I understand that it is the practice in both ecclesiastical and civil courts, in accord with the law, to forbid special friends of litigants to try their cases, lest love of their friends blind the judges or tempt them to act unfairly.111 If love can make you blind or too lenient in regard to the faults of a friend, what will your self-love do when you consider your own faults? 15. If a man wants to know the full truth about