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  "title": "The psalm joins the very virtues the paragraph separates",
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      "exact": "make righteousness and peace kiss each other",
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  "body_markdown": "The wording adapts Psalm 85:10 in the King James Version: ‘Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.’ The first half of the verse matters as much as the borrowed second half: the psalm already brings together the mercy and truth that Chesterton's humanitarian and scientist have pulled apart. [KJV, Psalm 85:7–13, Gutenberg #10](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10).\n\nThe corresponding verse is Psalm 84:11 in the inspected Douay-Rheims text (Gutenberg #8300), which uses *justice* for *righteousness*. The difference in wording and numbering should not be treated as a different biblical passage. [Douay-Rheims, Psalm 84:8–14](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8300). Chesterton changes the accomplished meeting into something a historical religious system could effect only ‘to some extent’, then reduces the kiss to the modern failure even to bow. That comic social gesture recasts a scriptural image of reconciliation as an argument about the coordination of virtues. The psalm supplies the image, not historical evidence for his assessment of Torquemada's society.",
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    "The wording closely matches the King James tradition but does not establish which Bible or liturgical source Chesterton used.",
    "Gutenberg #8300 identifies itself as superseded by #1581; the former is the witness actually compared here. The translation tradition's original publication date is distinct from this electronic witness."
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        "approach": "Interlocutors and historical debates",
        "question": "What does Blatchford actually deny by denying sin, and does his proposed treatment of offenders justify Chesterton's charge of anarchy?"
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        "approach": "Assumed knowledge and unusual language",
        "question": "What ancient accusation and spectacle underlie the joke about Blatchford as an early Christian and enemy of the human race?"
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        "approach": "Biblical references",
        "question": "Which psalm supplies the kiss of righteousness and peace, and how does its surrounding language bear on the paragraph's divided virtues?"
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