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Egypt, suffered a merciless doom by the judgment of 

 Truth, and Justice.* Dathan and Abiram were justly 

 doomed and destroyed.! When Joshua led the people 

 of Israel into the land that God had promised them 

 God ordered him to punish the people who dwelt in the 

 city called Jericho with such severity that whatever 

 was living should perish. J Long after that, when King 

 Saul led an invasion into Amalek, God commanded him 

 to slay everything that was living; but Saul incurred 

 the anger of God because he did not carry out what was 

 commanded.! The case of Judas, one of the apostles of 

 God, is among the examples that belong to a much later 

 date: for Truth and Justice condemned him without 

 mercy for dastardly treachery toward his Lord. There 

 are many similar cases, though we have given these 

 only; and, inasmuch as our speech would get too long, 

 we cannot include in a single discourse all the examples 

 that we know resemble these. But when God decreed 

 all these punishments which we have now recounted, 

 the sisters were all on the judgment seat with Him, 

 Truth and Justice, Mercy and Peace, and they all agreed 

 with Him and kissed and embraced each other. 



OTHER INSTANCES IN WHICH THE ARGUMENTS OF PEACE 

 AND MERCY HAVE HAD GREATER WEIGHT 



Son. It is quite evident that in the cases which you 

 have now recounted, Truth and Justice had a larger 

 part in the verdict than Peace and Mercy. But no one 

 can doubt that the sisters were all agreed in these de- 



* Exodus, xiv. f Numbers, xvi. J Joshua, vi. / Samuel, xv. 



