Eye for an Eye in Paraguay

Justice has taken a new twist here in the 2nd Department of San Pedro, Paraguay. A little over a week ago Claudalina’s (our Land lord Hipolito’s wife) brother-in-law was killed by several knife stabs to his heart. He had been cheating on his wife and the husband of the woman he had been with several times had warned him to get out of the community or he would be killed. He was warned several times the way I understand and at last the threat was completed and he was stabbed to death.
 
Less than two weeks later Hipolito talked to a man that works at the Public Office that takes care of death certificates and other such official paper work. The official told Hipolito (is there any privacy laws in Paraguay?) that three more murders of the same nature have taken place since. One other jealous husband had killed a man that had been with his wife and left his body near the highway close to 6 mil. Two other husbands paid other men to do the murdering for them and got rid of the men that they thought needed to die.
 
Hipolito and I talked a little of what the Bible says regarding “and eye for an eye”. This was the way in the old testament but now we are in the new dispensation. I was inspired to see what the Bible said regarding revenge and the “new law” of love....
 
Exo 21:24  Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
Exo 21:25  Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Exo 21:26  And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
Exo 21:27  And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
 
1Jn 2:7  Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
1Jn 2:8  Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
1Jn 2:9  He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
1Jn 2:10  He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
1Jn 2:11  But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
 
Joh 13:34  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Joh 13:35  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
 
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