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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 [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:

133:1.2 " 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 [[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: