Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them — do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? — the two examples together (political atrocity and structural accident) present the full range of sudden death and reject both a providential explanation (they deserved it) and a probabilistic one (it was random). Both deaths are used not to explain the past but to urge the present: unless you repent, you too will all perish.

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