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Saying, “If you offer your gift,” (Matthew 5:23–24) and what follows, makes this clear: God invented a way of salvation and an escape from punishment for sinners — a change of mind — and he says healing the one who was grieved will overturn punishment.
Since the one who does not love his brother does not love the Lord, he reasonably does not accept the one who approaches while his brother is in grief, as one not truly coming to him.