“Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.”
YHWH announces that just as new wine is found in a cluster and one says "Do not destroy it, for blessing is in it," so YHWH will do for divine servants' sake and not destroy all. The wine-cluster metaphor suggests that preservation of the righteous few justifies sparing the whole. The logic is that blessing attached to the remnant preserves the community. The explicit statement that YHWH will do this for the servants' sake establishes that the faithful remnant is the basis for divine restraint. This verse articulates the theological principle underlying salvation: the righteous preserve the community.
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