...accordance with God's will: "Both may be, and one must be wrong." Now, thirty months later, he said, "The prayers of both could not be answered; that of...answered fully." "The Almighty has his own purposes," Lincoln added, quoting Jesus' fiery words in the Gospel of Matthew: "'Woe unto the world because of...

...he did throughout the course of the war — upon the significance of the war's duration and carnage: The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to the man from whom the offence cometh!" If we shall suppose that American...

...sense that the bloodshed of the Civil War was God's inevitable punishment for the evil of slavery. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery...

..."let us judge not, that we be not judged," the penultimate paragraph of the address reads as follows: The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American Slavery...

...assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. (8.332-333) Rather than merely conclude that there is enough guilt to go around, Lincoln raises the...

...assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered...but woe to that man by whom the offenses cometh." If we shall suppose American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs...

...assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered—...world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery...

...assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered...world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!" If we shall suppose that American slavery...

...assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered,...world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery...

...wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.6 The prayers of both could not be answered. That of...world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."7 If we shall suppose that American...