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God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn’t, then he is not God and we need not worry.
— Balian of Ibelin · Kingdom of Heaven
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker reassures their lord that God will grasp the situation. Then comes a bold turn: if God fails to understand, God would not be God at all, so there is nothing to fear. Faith is presented as confidence that understanding is part of what divinity means.
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