“There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.”
The promise that one dying at a hundred years will be considered a youth and one falling short of a hundred will be considered accursed suggests radical lifespan extension in the eschatological age. The equation of premature death with curse-status indicates that the restored world eliminates death except as ultimate eschatological sign. The rhetorical structure—those at one hundred considered young—suggests that the normal human lifespan is exponentially extended. This verse articulates one dimension of eschatological transformation: mortality itself is fundamentally transformed, approaching elimination.
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