And some versions of the Lord's Prayer say "Forgive us our debts" rather than "Forgive us our trespasses".The Live 8 campaign in 2005 tried to shame developed nations into forgiving the debts of poor countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
The bookseller sniffed that Microsoft owned only "trivial" patents and reminded the department of the software company's past trespasses against competition.Nine months later, the bookworms and the geeks are the best of friends.
Instead, the commission suggests that slow economic growth is the main cause of Europe's unemployment.In this section Greater, poorer Our trespasses Tu embarrassing Boris Yeltsin's unruly brood Confounded Communists Fiddling Tiny problems ReprintsThis analysis is feeble.
Last week he dismissed the Duma as noteworthy only for "anarchy" and "boorishness", and threatened it with dissolution.In this section Tiny problems Greater, poorer Our trespasses Tu embarrassing Boris Yeltsin's unruly brood Confounded Communists Fiddling ReprintsMr Yeltsin is bullying a baby.
Others, like the organisers of mass trespasses on the moorlands owned by the aristocracy, were communists or communist sympathisers.
The New Testament employed them all to symbolize something that could be described only symbolically, that "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them" (2 Corinthians 5 19).
This is no arbitrary pronouncement but is made with reference to Jesus Christ, "who was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification" (Rom. 4 25).
The English version of the Lord's Prayer used in many Protestant churches replaces the lines "And forgive us our trespasses / As we forgive those who trespass against us" with: And forgive us our debts As we have forgiven our debtors And forgive us our debts As we have forgiven our debtors Protestants also add the following conclusion: For thine is the kingdom And the power And the glory, Forever.
J offers a nightmarish vision of a society forgiving its trespasses in diluted language: formalised, but far from heartfelt apologies; people choosing new, often Hebraic names in the belief that they are all now one happy family.
"The boundary between what is acceptable and what trespasses into unacceptable behaviour is sometimes unclear and difficult to distinguish.
But Mr Haw does face the risk of having an injunction served on him if he trespasses on to the grass without the London Mayor's permission.
