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Chas v’shalom! (G-d forbid!) For then how could Hashem be HaShofet kol ha’Aretz (BERESHIS 18:25)?

"But if the Emes Hashem (truth of G-d) has by my sheker overflowed to His kavod (glory), why am I still judged as a rashah (an evildoer)?"

Why do we not say, as some speakers of lashon hora slanderously report us to say, "Let us do rah that tov might come of it"? The gezar din (verdict) of ashem (guilty) on them is well deserved.

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Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?(A) Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,(B) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”(C) Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”?(D) Their condemnation is just!

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