137. If, indeed, he hadn’t multiplied them, the world with those who live in it would not now exist.
138. He is called giver, because if he didn’t give out of his own goodness some relief from their sins to people who committed sins, not one ten-thousandth part of humanity could live.
139. He is called judge, because unless he forgave those created by his word and wiped out the multitude of their offenses,
140. perhaps only a very few would be left from the innumerable multitude."