Hence it is, that, according to the common observation, one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. From The People's New Testament , B.W. Johnson, 1891. The problem with much of our Christology nowadays is that we have concentrated so much on the stooping that we have lost sight of the royalty. More than half of the biblical message is thereby eliminated, for it is the combination that counts. At Religion Online .
Love is both the fulfilment and the negation of law.
Forgiveness is the highest justice and the end of justice. The judge of the Parable of the Last Judgment is inexorable. He consigns men to hell for the evil they have done. The householder of the Parable of the Vineyard specifically rejects the calculations of justice. This judge and this householder are both symbols of God, of the God who is at once judge and redeemer.