What Does Just Mean in the Bible Read through 3 lenses

The inner faculty that weighs spirit against flesh must measure true, and a person whose judgment is rigged toward the lower side has corrupted the very instrument of discernment. The balance is the discriminating power that holds the 2 natures against each other and reads which way a thing tends, and when it is falsified, the weighing of every choice tilts toward appetite and calls it truth.

A just weight is the honest measure that gives spirit and matter their real value without the scale being loaded. What delights the higher self is a discernment that reports accurately, neither flattering the flesh nor cheating the soul. The whole inner life depends on this scale reading straight, because a person who mismeasures the worth of things will spend their days trading the greater for the less and never know they were robbed.

• Balance: the inner discriminating faculty that weighs spirit against flesh and reads which way a thing tends
• False balance: the rigged scale of a corrupted judgment that tilts every measure toward appetite
• Just weight: the honest measure that gives spirit and matter their true value without the scale being loaded

• Noon at Golgotha, just outside Jerusalem: three crosses, soldiers on duty, a crowd standing around, and then the sky goes dark and stays dark for three hours. The darkness is the whole weight of the world's sin gathered in one place. Out of it he cries out, asking God why he has been left alone. Those words are the opening line of an old psalm, the prayer of a man in agony who still calls God his own, so this is not despair but prayer from the lowest point a person can reach. He goes down into that place of feeling abandoned so that nobody who lands there is there by themselves. Some in the crowd mishear and think he is calling for Elijah. A man lifts a sponge of sour wine to his mouth. Others just wait to see if rescue shows up. People are still watching him like a show instead of kneeling.

He cries out once more and hands over his spirit. He is not simply killed; he gives. He is the priest making the offering and the offering itself, laying his life down. Right then the heavy curtain in the temple, the one that shut off the holiest room where only the high priest could enter once a year, tears in two from the top down. Torn from the top means God did it. The wall between God and people is gone, the way in now runs through his own body, and the old animal sacrifices are over because the real one has been made.

The ground shakes, rocks split, graves open, and people who had died are seen alive in the city, because his death already reaches back to all the dead who were waiting for him. A Roman officer, an outsider with no share in Israel, is the first to say out loud that this man was truly God's Son, which is the door opening to every nation. And a little way off stand the women who came with him from Galilee, still there after nearly everyone else ran.