The constellation
J225 Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong
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The same sky, in words
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- Choice between evils · J210 entry
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- Angel and hermit. Angel takes hermit with him and does many seemingly unjust things. Later shows why each of these was just · J225.0.1 entry
- God punishes many men because of one sinner, like a man who kills hive of bees for stinging of one · J225.0.2 entry
- Angel in form of young man shows skeptical hermit that ways of providence are inscrutable · J225.0.3 entry
- Youth made lame: had kicked his mother · J225.1 entry
- Lion sent to kill a man: frees him from possibility of sinning and sojourn in purgatory · J225.2 entry
- Angel takes cup from old man. Done lest he love the cup too much · J225.3 entry
- Angel (Jesus) kills man. Done because man is plotting a murder · J225.4 entry
- Angel kills man because he loves his child too much · J225.5 entry
- Saint gives liberally to gambler, little to beggar. Gambler is generous, beggar hoards · J225.6 entry
- Forestman who longs to do evil is sent to hell: writer, who repents, is sent to heaven. God justifies this to his sage · J225.7 entry
- Evil mother has fine funeral, good father poor · J225.8 entry