Now what that represented: Now, the first thing, the people had sinned, and were dying of sickness. Now, watch this compound reason, now. They were…sinned, and were dying of sickness because of sin; and all sin is direct, or, either direct caused…all sickness, rather, caused by sin. Before we had any sin, we had no sickness, and sickness is an attribute of sin; maybe not what you done, but what somebody done before you, inherited. Sickness is an attribute of sin.

Brass Serpent, 1953-11-21, Evansville, IN, §59