“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it — the assertion that transgression of a single law constitutes violation of the entire legal order appears stark until understood through the lens of Levitical holiness and covenantal unity. The one law is not merely one of many rules but a violation of the unified will of the lawgiver. The 'whole law' (pas nomos) expresses a unified character in God, so that fracture at any point represents betrayal of the whole.
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