Capítulo 1: La compasión desde sus fundamentos bíblico-teológicos

Abstract

One of the constants of the God of Jesus Christ is that He is a merciful, tender, compassionate1 God. merciful, tender, compassionate1 .

. For many scholars, these attitudes are God's constants and cannot be separated.

are the constants of God and cannot be separated. When we speak of mercy, we are alluding at the same time to compassion. So much so that in some translations translations we find that it is sometimes translated as compassion or mercy2. or mercy2

. For this reason, an author such as José Manuel Andueza states: "From the outset we find that in the Old Testament the word "compassion" is translated as "compassion". In the Old Testament we find that in the Old Testament there are different words, since, as Dueruer indicates, it is words, since, as Duerrwell points out, to celebrate this merciful love, the Hebrew Bible the Hebrew Bible had a range of terms to celebrate this merciful affection, each one of which of which in turn contains multiple harmonics "3.

. We can say, with Xabier Pikaza and José Antonio Pagola, that mercy has names or characteristic notes. characteristic notes.