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 1    1,   2    |        of the divinity which the Old Testament, using various
 2    1,   2    |      confers on the whole of the Old Testament tradition about
 3    3         |                         III. THE OLD TESTAMENT ~
 4    3,   4    |        Concept of "Mercy" in the Old Testament ~The concept of "
 5    3,   4    |        concept of "mercy" in the Old Testament has a long and
 6    3,   4    |         the People of God of the Old Covenant, had drawn from
 7    3,   4    |         regard, the books of the Old Testament give us very many
 8    3,   4    |     examples in the books of the Old Testament.42 ~At the root
 9    3,   4    | demonstrated by the whole of the Old Testament down the centuries,
10    3,   4    |        misery. The people of the Old Covenant experienced this
11    3,   4    |          individual books of the Old Testament with a great richness
12    3,   4    |       about this subject.52 ~The Old Testament proclaims the
13    3,   4    |     under different aspects. The Old Testament encourages people
14    3,   4    |         trust. Subsequently, the Old Testament gives thanks and
15    3,   4    |          more profound. Even the Old Testament teaches that,
16    3,   4(52)|          mercy, the books of the Old Testament use two expressions
17    3,   4(52)|          difference. When in the Old Testament the word hesed
18    3,   4(52)|        in the terminology of the Old Testament serves to define
19    3,   4(52)|       readiness to forgive.  The Old Testament attributes to
20    3,   4(52)|  motherhood, is expressed in the Old Testament texts in various
21    3,   4(52)|        In the terminology of the Old Testament we also find other
22    3,   4(52)|          that already marked the Old.~In this way, we have inherited
23    3,   4(52)|          have inherited from the Old Testament - as it were in
24    3,   4(52)|     basic semantic elements, the Old Testament concept of mercy
25    3,   4    |          history of man - as the Old Testament precisely does -
26    3,   4    | foreshadow in the context of the Old Covenant the full revelation
27    3,   4    |          the history both of the Old Covenant and of the New,
28    3,   4    |   prepared, as many pages of the Old Testament writings demonstrate.
29    4,   5    |      forcefully echoes the whole Old Testament tradition. They
30    4,   5    |         image inherited from the Old Testament becomes at the
31    4,   5    |       the terminology, as in the Old Testament books, as to the
32    4,   6    |        individual threads of the Old Testament vision of mercy
33    4,   6    |       trait already known by the Old Testament term hesed - is
34    5,   7    |          being This covenant, as old as man - it goes back to
35    6,  12    |  faithful to the doctrine of the Old Testament, for their attitude
36    7         |          of the tradition of the Old and the New Covenant, and