<P> Lincoln quotes another of Jesus' sayings: "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh ." Lincoln's quoted language comes from Matthew 18: 7; a similar discourse by Jesus appears in Luke 17: 1 . </P> <P> Lincoln suggests that the death and destruction wrought by the war was divine retribution to the U.S. for possessing slavery, saying that God may will that the war continue "until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword", and that the war was the country's "woe due". The quotation "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether" is from Psalm 19: 9 . </P> <P> The closing paragraph contains two additional glosses from scripture "let us strive on to...bind up the nation's wounds" is a reworking of Psalm 147: 3 . Also, "to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan" relies on James 1: 27 . </P> <P> Lincoln's point seems to be that God's purposes are not directly knowable to humans, and represents a theme that he had expressed earlier . After Lincoln's death, his secretaries found among his papers an undated manuscript now generally known as the "Meditations on the Divine Will ." In that manuscript, Lincoln wrote: </P>

Who said the following- let us strive to bind up the nation's wounds
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