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God's Mercy in Not Repaying Our Sins

God does not repay us according to our sins but shows compassion like a father to those who fear Him.

He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. She has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. Is.✦1 40.✦2 2.3 As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion4 on those who fear him.✦

The Compassionate and Relenting God

God is compassionate, relents from evil, and does not remain angry forever, as shown in Scripture.

Compassionate. Relenting of the evil.✦5 Joel.✦ d.6 18. Soon it ceases.7 He will not be angry forever, nor will he threaten forever.8 Psalm 102.9 9.

Ready Forgiveness and Full Pardon

God is ready to forgive and grants full remission of debt when we ask.

Ready to forgive. I forgave you the whole debt, because you asked Me.

Reconciliation and Propitiation

God reconciles the world to Himself through propitiation, restoring sinners like the prodigal son.

Reconciliation. Reconciling the world to Yourself, not counting the world's sins against it.10 Propitiation.11 Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand; and bring the fattened calf, etc.

Kindness to the Ungrateful

God's kindness extends even to the ungrateful and wicked, reflecting His generous love.

Kind.12 Because he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.✦

Read the original Latin

Non secundum peccata nostra facit nobis, neque secundum iniquitates nostras retribuit nobis.

Suscepit de manu Domini duplicia pro omnibus peccatis suis. 4s. xl. 2. Quomodo misertus pater filiorum, misertus est Dominus

timentibus Eum.

Compatiens.

Poenitens mah. Joel. d. 18.

Cito desinens. Non in perpetuum irascetur,

neque in zternum comminabitur. Psal cii. 9.

Pronus ad veniam.

Dimissi tibi omne debitum, quia rogasti Me.

Reconciliationem. Reconcilians mundum Tibi, non reputans delicta mundi.

Propyitiationem. Cito proferte stolam primam, et induite eum; et date annulum in manum ejus; et adducite vitulum saginatum, etc.

Χρηστός. Quia Ipse benignus est super ingratos et malos.

Scripture echoes

  1. ↩Isa.40.2 — Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
  2. ↩Isa.40.2 — Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
  3. ↩Ps.103.13;Ps.104.13 — As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him. Ps.104.13 — He waters the mountains from his upper chambers; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works.
  4. ↩Jonah.3.10;Joel.2.13-Joel.2.14 — And God saw their deeds, that they had turned from their evil way; and God relented of the disaster that He had declared He would bring upon them, and He did not do it." Retain as-is; it has strong closure and doctrinal precision. Joel.2.13 — Tear open your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and he relents from sending disaster. Joel.2.14 — Who knows whether he will turn and relent, and leave behind a blessing—a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?
  5. ↩Joel.2.13-Joel.2.14 — Tear open your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and he relents from sending disaster. Joel.2.14 — Who knows whether he will turn and relent, and leave behind a blessing—a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?
  6. ↩Luke.6.35 — But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.

Notes

  1. 1 ↩Source reading '4s.' is almost certainly a typesetting/OCR corruption of the biblical book abbreviation 'Is.' (Isaias/Isaiah), completed by the following 'xl.' and '2.'
  2. 2 ↩Roman numeral citation fragment 'xl.' = chapter 40, almost certainly completing 'Is. xl. 2.'
  3. 3 ↩Verse number completing the citation 'Is. xl. 2.'
  4. 4 ↩Latin is elliptical: 'misertus pater' without est in the first clause; sense is comparative (as a father... so the Lord...). Sentence continues in the next section with 'timentibus Eum.'
  5. 5 ↩Latin reads "Poenitens mah." Neighboring divine-mercy attributes (Compatiens; Cito desinens; Non in perpetuum irascetur) make "poenitens" almost certainly the biblical sense of God relenting. "mah" is not standard Latin; the most plausible intended reading is a corruption of mal./mali/malo ("of the evil/harm"), as in the common biblical phrase of God repenting of the evil he had said he would do. Translation follows that sense.
  6. 6 ↩Bare "d." is almost certainly citation apparatus (chapter letter, or a damaged chapter numeral), not prose. Left as printed rather than silently expanded.
  7. 7 ↩Fragmentary absolute: Cito desinens (quickly/soon ceasing). No explicit subject in the Latin; neighboring lines concern divine anger and mercy (Joel; Ps 102:9 Vulg.), so the most natural sense is that wrath or displeasure soon ends. Subject left implicit rather than invented.
  8. 8 ↩Source reading zternum treated as aeternum (OCR/type corruption of ae/æ); sense continues the Psalm line from the previous section: Non in perpetuum irascetur, neque in aeternum comminabitur.
  9. 9 ↩Abbreviated citation Psal cii. = Psalm 102 in Vulgate numbering (modern/Hebrew Psalm 103).
  10. 10 ↩Participial liturgical formula; English preserves the absolute/incipit force rather than expanding into a full finite sentence.
  11. 11 ↩Source reads Propyitiationem; taken as Propitiationem (propitiation), matching the neighboring single-word titles (Reconciliationem, etc.).
  12. 12 ↩Greek Χρηστός (chrēstos): kind, good, gracious. Given as a title-word matching the following Luke citation, where Vulgate benignus renders the same sense.

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