Biblical and legal justice

The word righteousness often appears in the Old Testament; the righteous are praised. One of the Christian perfection’s basic stones is justice even among the eight blessings: Blessed are the hungry and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled (Mt 5, 6). Even at first glance, however, it is clear that this is a broader meaning. St. Gregor from Nazarian adds that here “righteousness means all virtues,” all perfection. Christ calls on the disciples to make their “justice greater than of the scribes and Pharisees.» So, they have to lead a better, truly, more virtuous life.

The concept of justice came to modern languages from Roman law. Give everyone what is his. According to for righteousness is righteousness, and the firm will to give to each right». Authors interpreting the statement emphasize «stability and strength of the dude.» One can be merciful sometimes, sometimes not. Fair, however, he is the only one who acts all the time justly. Nevertheless, there is a connection between the two notions of justice, biblical and legal. Even in Scripture, he combines justice with strength, steadfastness, steadfastness. God supports the righteous (Z 36, 17), the rock, the attack in the middle; they claim precisely because he himself is righteous. Nomadic nomads did not have the legal security of the state
system. Peaceful social interaction in sales and buying, negotiating, and contracting was possible only when the word was kept. Therefore, the original meaning.

Biblical justice is the firmness and faithfulness of keeping the covenant, the promise, the word. The relationship with God was also expressed in the Old Testament in these terms. The Jews closed and restored the solemn covenant with the Lord (cf. Gen 6: 18; 9, 12; 17, 2; Ex 34, 27, etc.). Many did not follow it. Even in times, however, the “most righteous” occurred in the greatest decline, who kept what was written in the Law. Their last representative is Joseph, Mary’s man, whose Scripture briefly and concisely characterizes him as “a righteous man” (Mt 1:19). But the most righteous is God himself. He also committed by treaty to his people that he will help him, that he will bring him out of all dangers, and that he will salvation and the redeemer. However, all this was conditioned by the faithfulness of the Jews. They then did not consistently abide by the contract.

So how will God behave? He solemnly declares his release from Hosea for all its obligations but, at the same time, its justice. So, he’s not like a human, which promises and does not fulfill. After all, the God of the Promised Redeemer, Wisdom, prudence, the justice he sends, precisely because he is fair that he knows to keep what he promised. Hosea discusses it dramatically villa. Head: When Israel was young, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt. The more I got him, but he cried, the farther he was from me, sacrificing bau and burning incense to idols … My heart is turned in me, my mercy arouses. But I will not pour mine hot anger; I will not despise Ephraim: for I am God, and not a man, the Holy One in the midst of thee; I will not enter the city, I do not know what! » Different types of justice have many responsibilities. Because it balances and directs, it takes seemingly conflicting views. Aristotle compares it to pupil and evening vein. It’s her a certain star, and yet it announces the day, sometimes the night. Rye calls for everything to be shared equally (scholastic ethics
iustitia commutative); other times, great attention must be paid to the person, his past, the nature of the need (iustitia distributive). Special so-called studies deserve special studies. Social justice maintains the right balance between conditions and classes of human society and all those who work here.

According to Plato, justice is needed, especially to maintain the balance of the inner spiritual life so that one virtue is not harming another. Without justice, even a Christian could not be done well in love. It is said that love is more important and higher than justice. On the contrary, poorly paid workers in the mine- At the turn of the century, they did not care about the love of employers, that they want justice, and they refused supplements in the form of gifts. None of the Christians doubts that perfection is in love. But justice is a way of loving one’s neighbor to carry out. It is certainly not possible to be unfair, and at the same time, want to “show love.” Aristoteles and St. Thomas Aquinas. Both build justice before other virtues because it is for other people. Is that is an expression of love of the neighbor?

Therefore, justice, in particular, who considered the welfare of society, the state. For example. Emperor Alexander Severus allegedly never dared to decide before twenty legal experts did not give judgment. When he learned that he was a judge, he bribed him; he allegedly blinded him himself. The example of the Greek legislator was read on the encouragement of not youth from Levi Zephyr, who imposed a penalty of blindness for a foreign kingdom. But they caught him. Son. He should have been blinded. But the people rebelled; they did not want a blind heir to the throne. Finally, the ruler was so softened that one eye was forced on his son and the other on himself. However, the Romans were also aware that this could be the case go too far. The proverb came: “The greatest justice is the greatest iniquity” (Summum ius summa iniuria). If we strictly enforce fair laws, we show the love of society. Unfortunately, it easily happens that the good of the whole is
to the great detriment of the individual in our social order. Laws that ruthlessly could turn the state into a monster that eats its children. Therefore, if justice is supplemented by mercy, as they say, it is not harming justice but helping improves it.