"Your justice is like the highest mountains; your judgments, like the mighty deep; human being and beast you sustain, Lord. How precious is your mercy, O God!" (Psalm 36:7-8) "Show mercy on those who know you, your just defense to the upright of heart. Do not let the foot of the proud overtake me, nor the hand of the wicked disturb me." (Psalm 36:11-12) "When I sing of your righteousness in a great assembly, see, I do not restrain my lips; as you, LORD, know." (Psalm 40:10) "I do not conceal...
Read MoreAugust 11th, Santa Clare’s feast is also Lawyers’ day in Brazil: today we are beginning the publication of biblical quotations that enlighten the notion of Justice. We are going to discover that it is very intimately linked with God, the unique just judge “who will repay everyone according to his works” (Romans 2, 6). Let’s begin with the Psalms. "Therefore the wicked will not arise at the judgment, nor will sinners in the assembly of the just. Because the LORD knows the way of...
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