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Clemency
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
"mildness, gentleness, kindness" (what Matthew Arnold has called "sweet reasonableness"), is translated "clemency" in Acts 24:4; elsewhere, in 2 Corinthians 10:1 , of the gentleness of Christ. See GENTLENESS. Cp. epieikes (see FORBEARANCE).
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Clemency'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/c/clemency.html. 1940.