“As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.”
The assertion that all souls belong to God—both father and son—establishes the theological basis for individual accountability: because all persons directly belong to God as His creatures, each person stands alone before Him for judgment. The soul that sins shall surely die, establishing the fundamental principle that death results inevitably from personal transgression. This principle displaces the communal and inherited understanding of judgment with direct personal consequence.
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