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pour nous, ' toward us

nous aurons été... qui auront pardonné. The future peffect is used hère, because the acts spoken of, though themselves taking place in the future, will be past, when certain other future events take place. The sentence means * God will be to us what we (by the time of His judgment) shall hâve been to others. '

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