It is noteworthy that the attributes of divine justice as models for judges’ conduct are defined in negative terms: ‘For there is no perversion of justice with the Lord our God, or partiality, or taking bribes’. We have noted before (cf. to I Chron. 29.11) how the Chronicler struggles with the limitations of language in his effort to express the abstract nature of divine attributes. Here, in describing the attribute of God’s justice – a cornerstone of his religious outlook – the Chronicler chooses to formulate his expression in a negative way, by the absence of certain qualities rather than
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