Exodus 31:14

[ServantofGod]

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?

 

[A5pointer]

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.

 

[Contra_Mundum]

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