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and patient, because he shows patience to those who have sinned, since they are his own creation.
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I know that he is called generous, because he wants to give gifts rather than demand them,
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and very merciful, because he multiplies mercies more and more to those now alive and those who went before and those who are to come in the future.
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If, indeed, he hadn't multiplied them, the world with those who live in it would not now exist.
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He is called giver, because if he didn't give out of his own goodness some relief from their sins to people who committed sins, not one ten-thousandth part of humanity could live.
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He is called judge, because unless he forgave those created by his word and wiped out the multitude of their offenses,
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perhaps only a very few would be left from the innumerable multitude."