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judgment.” ἔλεος is human mercy shown in practise, κρίσεως is God’s condemnatory judgment, cf. Jas. 5:12, Jn. 5:24. This gives the converse of the previous sentence. As the unmerciful will meet with no mercy, so a record of mercy will prevent condemnation. Cf. 5:20 and Ecclus. 3:30, 40:17, Tob. 4:9–11. The doctrine (and need) of God’s forgiving mercy is here assumed in regular Jewish fashion. On the great importance ascribed to mercy as a virtue in Jewish thought, see Bousset, Religion des Judentums2,
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