And it shall be: as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor, establishing that the judgment erases all social distinctions and hierarchies, affecting all classes and statuses equally. The systematic pairing of opposites—people and priest, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor—suggests that the judgment reaches to the fundamental structures of society and all the relationships that constitute it. The leveling of all humans before the judgment suggests both justice (all accountable) and totality (no exemptions). This verse establishes that apocalyptic judgment transcends the particularities that have defined human social organization.

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