The Old Testament word for judgment (mishÂpat) comes from the verb shaphat, judging, and is illustrated in the proper name Jehoshaphat, God has judged. In ordinary use it would be a word of authority spoken by a judge, but as in Israel the first Judge of the nation was God, it is His laws which are...
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