Justice, in the hands of God, fulfills the law only by answering the question: what is needed? The law is fulfilled by asking: what, on this occasion, is needed to re/create the world as a just world? If hard consequences are needed to express love and fulfill the law, then love enforces hard consequences—but as a form of grace, not as an act of revenge. And if, instead, mercy and tenderness are needed to express love and fulfill the law, then mercy and grace are given. In either case, the law is fulfilled and it is fulfilled by love.
