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Lovingkindness

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Announcements › Forums › Adam and Fallen Man — May 9th, 2021 › Lovingkindness

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  • May 4, 2021 at 7:21 pm #12632
    Ldshap
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    Psalms 51:1 – “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. (Lesson citation #6)

    • The importance of the word “loving-kindness” is that it stands more than any other word for the attitude which both parties to a covenant ought to maintain towards each other. It combines the ideas of love and loyalty, both of which are essential.
    • God’s loving-kindness is that sure love which will not let Israel go. Not all Israel’s persistent waywardness could ever destroy it. Though Israel be faithless, yet God remains faithful still. This steady, persistent refusal of God to wash His hands of wayward Israel is the essential meaning of the Hebrew word which is translated loving-kindness.
    Source: Article, by Norman H. Snaith, is reproduced from A Theological Word Book of the Bible, edited by Alan Richardson (New York: MacMillan, 1951), pp. 136-7.

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