Hobbes merged supernatural punishment with natural causality

Evidence

It was Hobbes who famously merged the idea of supernatural punishment with the idea that all punishment was in a crucial sense natural: “Having thus briefly spoken of the natural kingdom of God, and his natural laws, I will add only to this chapter a short declaration of his natural punishments. There is no action of man in this life, that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as no human providence is high enough, to give a man a prospect to the end. And in this chain, there are . — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 636