ore appropriate quote would be the one used by G. Wilson Knight in his essay, Measure for Measure and the Gospels, when he quoted the bible from a situation where Jesus was talking to a woman taken in adultery: "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more." (John 8:11). Knight brings up a very important point that I wish to stress on, which is that Christianity's main message as opposed that of Judaism is mercy and not justice. Jesus Christ in his teachings put mercy above justice and above "an eye for an eye". J.W. Lever quotes Bere*censored*h Rabbah Midrash, "Thus said the holy one: 'If I create the world with Justice, how can the world exist?" (Lever lxiii). Isabella herself shows her understanding of that point when she was talking to Angelo and said,
             No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,
             Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
             The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
             Become them with one half so good a grace
             As mercy does. (Act 2 Sc. 2 58-63).
             This shows how Isabella was very aware of how mercy was to be placed above justice in Christian doctrine. And it also shows ho
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