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The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.


From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

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It is also alarming that Parris seems to consider that MPs should be above the law. It is not “cheek” on the part of the judiciary to judge whether parliamentarians have overreached themselves — it is a vital balance in our constitution. alan hewitt Belfast Sir, Judges interpret statute; they don’t make it. It is for Parliament to grapple with the hard choices and questions surrounding privacy. And its failure to do so has landed us in the current morass. Judges are well capable of standing up for themselves, but, again constitutionally, no doubt regard it as inappropriate to do so. That makes them an easy target for some members of Parliament and of the press. We are extremely fortunate in these challenging times to have an independent and high quality judiciary. Sir, Three cheers for Lord Stoneham (report, May 20). Parliamentary privilege should be a balance to overweening power. Citizens can defeat a councillor, turn out an MP, change a government, but have no influence over the judiciary. Of course judges are custodians of the law — provided that it is the law as they interpret it. But we are shirking the key question in a democracy: quis custodiet ipsos custodes?