SINCE WE HAVE COME TO THIS POINT IN A DISCUSSION, let us again take up the first things that were said to us. And we will find that he says, ‘Good is he who has been done injustice completely. He is glorified justly.’ Is not this how he was reproached?
“This is certainly the fitting way!”
And I said, “Now then, we have spoken because he said that he who does injustice and he who does justice each has a force.”
”How then?”
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