Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.
Then the Lord added, “﻿Thou shalt not die,﻿” thus meeting the special form of his dread. This is what the Lord says to every poor trembler who is holding to him by the desperate grip of faith “﻿Thou shalt not die. Thou shalt not die the second death: thou hast no sin to die for, for I have laid thy transgressions on my only-begotten Son. Thou shalt not die, for Jesus died. Thy spiritual life cannot expire, for thy ‘﻿life is hid with Christ in God,﻿’ and because Jesus lives thou shalt live also.﻿”
