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Thank you very much.

I'm very much that introduction for many years in Boston and at Harvard.

So every time I return everything, it looks somewhat new, but also very familiar.

This lecture tonight is, you know, a portion of a book that I hope to eventually

write on the subject, narratives of forgiveness in the Bible, especially the relationship

with justice and mercy, in the way in which forgiveness will then be articulated. The only caveat

I think I would want to mention is that in order to get a full

kind of conspectus of the biblical view, which is definitely necessary to master what the Bible

wants to say ultimately about justice and mercy, you have to look at all these facets or sides

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