MSJ 1:1 (Spr 90) p. 28 determines to punish with temporal death, while at the same time he extends mercy to the penitent soul…. The sin not unto death is any sin which God does not choose thus to punish.32 The major support for this position is the interpretation of “brother.” “The text is explicit. It refers to a ‘brother,’ which term is never used of the unregenerate, and declares definitely that a Christian may sin in such a way that the chastisement of death may fall upon him.”33 Thus it is