{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1906-12-13/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The well-known words of Saint Paul: “The wages of sin are death,” were for centuries regarded as an answer, a solution to the question concerning death. Nowadays these words have lost their meaning for most educated people. Modern people are unable to see how sin, which belongs to the sphere of morality and is connected with human behavior, can have anything to do with a physical fact such as death. Nor do we see any connection with illness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. 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Heute wird derjenige, der im modernen Sinne denkt, mit einer solchen Antwort überhaupt nichts anfangen können, denn daß die Sünde etwas völlig Moralisches, etwas rein im Wesen des menschlichen Verhaltens Liegendes, die Ursache einer physischen Tatsache, wie der Tod es ist, sein könnte oder irgendwie mit dem Wesen der Krankheit zusammenhängen sollte, das ist für einen heutigen Denker ganz unerfindlich.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1906-12-13/p004"}],"english":["GA 55/1906-12-13/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"partial","length_check":{"de_words":120,"en_words":78,"ratio":0.65,"partial":true},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.93,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4576,"original_word_count":4907,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19061213p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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