turned out, the first person who broke his command was his son. The king faced a dilemma. The law had to be respected, but his parental love cried out for extending mercy. So, he decided to satisfy his law that two eyes had to be taken by taking one of his own eyes and one of the eyes of his son. Thereby, justice was met while mercy was granted. The emergence of the movement called Pietism marked the decline of the Latin view within Protestantism. It moved the understanding
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