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 1    1,   2    |      the divinity which the Old Testament, using various concepts
 2    1,   2    |         on the whole of the Old Testament tradition about God's mercy
 3    3         |                    III. THE OLD TESTAMENT ~
 4    3,   4    |   Concept of "Mercy" in the Old Testament ~The concept of "mercy"
 5    3,   4    |   concept of "mercy" in the Old Testament has a long and rich history.
 6    3,   4    |    regard, the books of the Old Testament give us very many examples.
 7    3,   4    |         in the books of the Old Testament.42 ~At the root of this
 8    3,   4    |         by the whole of the Old Testament down the centuries, is the
 9    3,   4    |     individual books of the Old Testament with a great richness of
10    3,   4    |        this subject.52 ~The Old Testament proclaims the mercy of the
11    3,   4    |      different aspects. The Old Testament encourages people suffering
12    3,   4    |    trust. Subsequently, the Old Testament gives thanks and glory for
13    3,   4    |     more profound. Even the Old Testament teaches that, although justice
14    3,   4(52)|     mercy, the books of the Old Testament use two expressions in particular,
15    3,   4(52)|     difference. When in the Old Testament the word hesed is used of
16    3,   4(52)|      the terminology of the Old Testament serves to define mercy is
17    3,   4(52)|  readiness to forgive.  The Old Testament attributes to the Lord precisely
18    3,   4(52)|         is expressed in the Old Testament texts in various ways: as
19    3,   4(52)|      the terminology of the Old Testament we also find other expressions,
20    3,   4(52)|      text. At any rate, the New Testament builds upon the wealth and
21    3,   4(52)|     have inherited from the Old Testament - as it were in a special
22    3,   4(52)|      semantic elements, the Old Testament concept of mercy is also
23    3,   4    |     history of man - as the Old Testament precisely does - the presence
24    3,   4    |        as many pages of the Old Testament writings demonstrate. At
25    4,   5    |       very beginning of the New Testament, two voices resound in St.
26    4,   5    | forcefully echoes the whole Old Testament tradition. They express
27    4,   5    |    image inherited from the Old Testament becomes at the same time
28    4,   5    |      terminology, as in the Old Testament books, as to the analogy
29    4,   6    |   individual threads of the Old Testament vision of mercy in a synthesis
30    4,   6    |        already known by the Old Testament term hesed - is at the same
31    4,   6    |        the love that in the New Testament is called agape. This love
32    6,  12    |         the doctrine of the Old Testament, for their attitude which