62 132 I answered and said, "I know, O Lord, that the Most High is now called merciful, because he has mercy on those who have not yet come into the world; 63 and gracious, because he is gracious to those who turn in repentance to his law; 64 and patient, because he shows patience toward those who have sinned, since they are his own creatures; 65 and bountiful, because he would rather give than take away; 1 66 and abundant in compassion, because he makes his compassions abound more and more to those now living and to those who are gone and to those yet to come-- 67 for if he did not make them abound, the world with those who inhabit it would not have life-- 68 and he is called the giver, because if he did not give out of his goodness so that those who have committed iniquities might be relieved of them, not one ten-thousandth of humankind could have life; 69 and the judge, because if he did not pardon those who were created by his word and blot out the multitude of their sins, 2 70 there would probably be left only very few of the innumerable multitude."