What sort of power is this? How exactly does death have power, a moral power, over us? A text that unpacks this dynamic—the moral power of death—is Hebrews 2:14–15: Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
