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133:1.1 A very interesting incident occurred one afternoon by the roadside as they neared [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taranto Tarentum]. They [[observed]] a rough and bullying [[youth]] brutally attacking a smaller lad. [[Jesus]] hastened to the [[assistance]] of the assaulted [[youth]], and when he had rescued him, he tightly held on to the offender until the smaller lad had made his [[escape]]. The moment Jesus released the little bully, Ganid pounced upon the boy and began soundly to thrash him, and to Ganid's astonishment [[Jesus]] promptly interfered. After he had restrained Ganid and [[permitted]] the [[frightened]] boy to [[escape]], the [[young man]], as soon as he got his [[breath]], excitedly exclaimed: " I cannot [[understand]] you, Teacher. If [[mercy]] requires that you rescue the smaller lad, does not [[justice]] demand the punishment of the larger and offending youth? " In answering, [[Jesus]] said:

133:1.1 A very interesting incident occurred one afternoon by the roadside as they neared [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taranto Tarentum]. They [[observed]] a rough and bullying [[youth]] brutally attacking a smaller lad. [[Jesus]] hastened to the [[assistance]] of the assaulted [[youth]], and when he had rescued him, he tightly held on to the offender until the smaller lad had made his [[escape]]. The moment Jesus released the little bully, Ganid pounced upon the boy and began soundly to thrash him, and to Ganid's astonishment [[Jesus]] promptly interfered. After he had restrained Ganid and [[permitted]] the [[frightened]] boy to [[escape]], the [[young man]], as soon as he got his [[breath]], excitedly exclaimed: " I cannot [[understand]] you, Teacher. If [[mercy]] requires that you rescue the smaller lad, does not [[justice]] demand the punishment of the larger and offending youth? " In answering, [[Jesus]] said:

133:1.2 " Ganid, it is true, you do not [[understand]]. [[Mercy]] [[ministry]] is always the [[work]] of the [[individual]], but [[justice]] [[punishment]] is the [[function]] of the [[social]], governmental, or [[universe]] [[administrative]] [[groups]]. As an [[individual]] I am beholden to show [[mercy]]; I must go to the rescue of the [[Attack|assaulted]] lad, and in all [[consistency]] I may employ sufficient force to restrain the aggressor. And that is just what I did. I achieved the [[deliverance]] of the assaulted lad; that was the end of [[mercy]] [[ministry]]. Then I forcibly detained the aggressor a sufficient length of time to enable the weaker party to the [[dispute]] to make his [[escape]], after which I withdrew from the affair. I did not [[proceed]] to sit in [[judgment]] on the aggressor, thus to pass upon his [[motive]]—to [[adjudicate]] all that entered into his [[attack]] upon his fellow—and then undertake to [[execute]] the [[punishment]] which my mind might dictate as just recompense for his wrongdoing. Ganid, [[mercy]] may be lavish, but [[justice]] is [[precise]]. Cannot you [[discern]] that no [[two]] [[persons]] are likely to [[agree]] as to the punishment which would satisfy the demands of [[justice]]? One would impose forty lashes, another twenty, while still another would advise [[solitary confinement]] as a just [[punishment]]. Can you not see that on this world such [[responsibilities]] had better rest upon the [[group]] or be [[administered]] by chosen [[representatives]] of the group? In the [[universe]], [[judgment]] is vested in those who fully know the antecedents of all wrongdoing as well as its [[motivation]]. In civilized [[society]] and in an [[organized]] [[universe]] the administration of [[justice]] [[presupposes]] the passing of just sentence consequent upon [[fair]] [[judgment]], and such [[prerogatives]] are vested in the [[juridical]] groups of the worlds and in the all-knowing [[administrators]] of the higher universes of all [[creation]]. "

133:1.2 " Ganid, it is true, you do not [[understand]]. [[Mercy]] [[ministry]] is always the [[work]] of the [[individual]], but [[justice]] [[punishment]] is the [[function]] of the [[social]], governmental, or [[universe]] [[administrative]] [[groups]]. As an [[individual]] I am beholden to show [[mercy]]; I must go to the rescue of the [[Attack|assaulted]] lad, and in all [[consistency]] I may employ sufficient force to restrain the aggressor. And that is just what I did. I achieved the [[deliverance]] of the assaulted lad; that was the end of [[mercy]] [[ministry]]. Then I forcibly detained the aggressor a sufficient length of time to enable the weaker party to the [[dispute]] to make his [[escape]], after which I withdrew from the affair. I did not [[proceed]] to sit in [[judgment]] on the aggressor, thus to pass upon his [[motive]]—to [[adjudicate]] all that entered into his [[attack]] upon his fellow—and then undertake to [[execute]] the [[punishment]] which my mind might dictate as just recompense for his wrongdoing. Ganid, [[mercy]] may be lavish, but [[justice]] is [[precise]]. Cannot you [[discern]] that no [[two]] [[persons]] are likely to [[agree]] as to the punishment which would satisfy the demands of [[justice]]? One would impose forty lashes, another twenty, while still another would advise [[solitary confinement]] as a just [[punishment]]. Can you not see that on this world such [[responsibilities]] had better rest upon the [[group]] or be [[administered]] by chosen [[representatives]] of the group? In the [[universe]], [[judgment]] is vested in those who fully know the antecedents of all wrongdoing as well as its [[motivation]]. In civilized [[society]] and in an [[organized]] [[universe]] the administration of [[justice]] [[presupposes]] the passing of just sentence consequent upon [[fair]] [[judgment]], and such [[prerogatives]] are vested in the [[juridical]] groups of the worlds and in the all-knowing [[administrators]] of the higher universes of all [[creation]]. "

133:1.3 For days they talked about this [[problem]] of [[manifesting]] [[mercy]] and [[administering]] [[justice]]. And Ganid, at least to some extent, [[understood]] why [[Jesus]] would not [[engage]] in [[personal]] [[combat]]. But Ganid asked one last question, to which he never received a fully [[satisfactory]] answer; and that question was: " But, Teacher, if a stronger and ill-tempered [[creature]] should [[attack]] you and threaten to destroy you, what would you do? Would you make no [[effort]] to defend yourself? " Although [[Jesus]] could not fully and satisfactorily answer the lad's question, inasmuch as he was not willing to disclose to him that he ([[Jesus]]) was living on [[earth]] as the exemplification of the [[Paradise Father]]'s [[love]] to an onlooking [[universe]], he did say this much:

133:1.3 For days they talked about this [[problem]] of [[manifesting]] [[mercy]] and [[administering]] [[justice]]. And Ganid, at least to some extent, [[understood]] why [[Jesus]] would not [[engage]] in [[personal]] [[combat]]. But Ganid asked one last question, to which he never received a fully [[satisfactory]] answer; and that question was: " But, Teacher, if a stronger and ill-tempered [[creature]] should [[attack]] you and threaten to destroy you, what would you do? Would you make no [[effort]] to defend yourself? " Although [[Jesus]] could not fully and satisfactorily answer the lad's question, inasmuch as he was not willing to disclose to him that he ([[Jesus]]) was living on [[earth]] as the exemplification of the [[Paradise Father]]'s [[love]] to an onlooking [[universe]], he did say this much:

133:1.4 " Ganid, I can well [[understand]] how some of these [[problems]] perplex you, and I will endeavor to answer your question. First, in all [[attacks]] which might be made upon my [[person]], I would determine whether or not the aggressor was a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE son of God]—my [[brother]] in the [[flesh]]—and if I thought such a [[creature]] did not possess [[moral]] [[judgment]] and [[spiritual]] [[reason]], I would unhesitatingly defend myself to the full [[capacity]] of my [[powers]] of [[resistance]], regardless of consequences to the attacker. But I would not thus assault a fellow man of sonship status, even in [[self]]-[[defense]]. That is, I would not [[punish]] him in advance and without [[judgment]] for his assault upon me. I would by every possible artifice seek to prevent and dissuade him from making such an [[attack]] and to mitigate it in case of my failure to abort it. Ganid, I have [[absolute]] [[confidence]] in my heavenly Father's overcare; I am [[consecrated]] to [[Doing the will of God|doing the will of my Father in heaven]]. I do not believe that real harm can befall me; I do not believe that my lifework can really be jeopardized by anything my enemies might wish to visit upon me, and surely we have no [[violence]] to fear from our [[friends]]. I am absolutely [[assured]] that the entire [[universe]] is friendly to me—this all-powerful [[truth]] I insist on believing with a wholehearted [[trust]] in spite of all [[appearances]] to the contrary. "

133:1.4 " Ganid, I can well [[understand]] how some of these [[problems]] perplex you, and I will endeavor to answer your question. First, in all [[attacks]] which might be made upon my [[person]], I would determine whether or not the aggressor was a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_40#40:5._MORTALS_OF_TIME_AND_SPACE son of God]—my [[brother]] in the [[flesh]]—and if I thought such a [[creature]] did not possess [[moral]] [[judgment]] and [[spiritual]] [[reason]], I would unhesitatingly defend myself to the full [[capacity]] of my [[powers]] of [[resistance]], regardless of consequences to the attacker. But I would not thus assault a fellow man of sonship status, even in [[self]]-[[defense]]. That is, I would not [[punish]] him in advance and without [[judgment]] for his assault upon me. I would by every possible artifice seek to prevent and dissuade him from making such an [[attack]] and to mitigate it in case of my failure to abort it. Ganid, I have [[absolute]] [[confidence]] in my heavenly Father's overcare; I am [[consecrated]] to [[Doing the will of God|doing the will of my Father in heaven]]. I do not believe that real harm can befall me; I do not believe that my lifework can really be jeopardized by anything my enemies might wish to visit upon me, and surely we have no [[violence]] to fear from our [[friends]]. I am absolutely [[assured]] that the entire [[universe]] is friendly to me—this all-powerful [[truth]] I insist on believing with a wholehearted [[trust]] in spite of all [[appearances]] to the contrary. "

133:1.5 But Ganid was not fully [[satisfied]]. Many times they talked over these matters, and [[Jesus]] told him some of his boyhood [[experiences]] and also about Jacob the stone mason's son. On learning how Jacob appointed himself to defend [[Jesus]], Ganid said: " Oh, I begin to see! In the first place very seldom would any [[normal]] [[human being]] want to [[attack]] such a kindly person as you, and even if any one should be so unthinking as to do such a thing, there is pretty sure to be near at hand some other [[mortal]] who will fly to your [[assistance]], even as you always go to the rescue of any person you [[observe]] to be in distress. In my [[heart]], Teacher, I [[agree]] with you, but in my head I still think that if I had been Jacob, I would have enjoyed punishing those rude fellows who presumed to attack you just because they [[thought]] you would not defend yourself. I presume you are fairly safe in your [[journey]] through life since you spend much of your time helping others and ministering to your fellows in distress—well, most likely there'll always be someone on hand to defend you. " And [[Jesus]] replied: " That test has not yet come, Ganid, and when it does, we will have to abide by [[the Father]]'s will. " And that was about all the lad could get his teacher to say on this [[difficult]] subject of [[self]]-[[defense]] and [[nonresistance]]. On another occasion he did draw from [[Jesus]] the opinion that [[organized]] [[society]] had every right to employ [[force]] in the [[execution]] of its just [[mandates]].

133:1.5 But Ganid was not fully [[satisfied]]. Many times they talked over these matters, and [[Jesus]] told him some of his boyhood [[experiences]] and also about Jacob the stone mason's son. On learning how Jacob appointed himself to defend [[Jesus]], Ganid said: " Oh, I begin to see! In the first place very seldom would any [[normal]] [[human being]] want to [[attack]] such a kindly person as you, and even if any one should be so unthinking as to do such a thing, there is pretty sure to be near at hand some other [[mortal]] who will fly to your [[assistance]], even as you always go to the rescue of any person you [[observe]] to be in distress. In my [[heart]], Teacher, I [[agree]] with you, but in my head I still think that if I had been Jacob, I would have enjoyed punishing those rude fellows who presumed to attack you just because they [[thought]] you would not defend yourself. I presume you are fairly safe in your [[journey]] through life since you spend much of your time helping others and ministering to your fellows in distress—well, most likely there'll always be someone on hand to defend you. " And [[Jesus]] replied: " That test has not yet come, Ganid, and when it does, we will have to abide by [[the Father]]'s will. " And that was about all the lad could get his teacher to say on this [[difficult]] subject of [[self]]-[[defense]] and [[nonresistance]]. On another occasion he did draw from [[Jesus]] the opinion that [[organized]] [[society]] had every right to employ [[force]] in the [[execution]] of its just [[mandates]].

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[[Category:Paper 133 - The Return From Rome]]

[[Category:Paper 133 - The Return From Rome]]

[[Category: Mercy]]

[[Category: Mercy]]

[[Category: Justice]]

[[Category: Justice]]