You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Stupid question: When it says "that soul shall be cut off from his people", is this implying that he has lost the salvation that he had, as a Jew, a person of the Covenant? Is he cast away from the people, not only in death, but also in eternity? In other words, is he now a reprobate for his working on the Sabbath?

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Ian Kemmerer
Covenant Presbetyrian Church,Reading,PA
Fleetwood,PA

"Be still, my soul: when dearest friends depart, And all is darkened in the vale of tears, Then shalt thou better know His love, His heart, Who comes to soothe thy sorrow and thy fears. Be still, my soul: thy Jesus can repay From His own fullness all He takes away."

I see the OT concept of soul as being physical life. The covenant had physical/temporal idea. Not much idea of after life in OT concept. I know about David's child but not much else if any.

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Bruce
PCUSA
Ocean City NJ

Kind of an "excommunication" idea embedded in that phrase.

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Rev. Bruce G. Buchanan
ChainOLakes Presbyterian Church, CentralLake, MI


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