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Judgment of God

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Judgment of God
medieval trial by combat or ordeal. [Eur. Hist.: Leach, 561]
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``Reverend father,'' answered the Preceptor of Goodalricke, ``no spell can effect the champion who comes forward to fight for the judgment of God.
The judgment of God is on me," answered the conscience-stricken priest.
Now," continued Villefort, "those to whom the guilt really belongs, by whom the crime was committed, on whose heads the justice of man may probably descend here, and the certain judgment of God hereafter, would rejoice in the opportunity thus afforded of bestowing such a peace-offering as Valentine on the son of him whose life they so ruthlessly destroyed.
 
 
 
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