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ОглавлениеJUSTICE.
Second Section of the Shema’.
*1. The second section of the Shema’ is from Deuteronomy xi, 13-22. (See Appendix II.)
2. It teaches us that God rewards us if we love and serve Him with all our heart and soul, but that we must suffer if we turn away from Him.
3. We often notice that the righteous have sorrow and that the wicked are prosperous. God is the Judge and He is a righteous Judge. Therefore we may be sure that if reward for righteousness and the penalty for wrong-doing be not given by Him in this life, it will be given in the future life.
4. Hence this second section of the Shema’ reminds us of Future Life.
5. We sometimes call the belief in Future Life the Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul. (See chapters xli-xlii.)
BIBLE QUOTATIONS.
2. Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked, it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.—Isa. iii, 10-11.
God will bring every work into judgment, whether it be good or whether it be evil.—Eccles. xii, 14.
3. Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.—Psalm xxxiv, 19.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?—Job xxi, 7.
Shall evil be recompensed for good?—Jerem. xviii, 20.
God is the Judge.—Psalm lxxvii, 7.
