I look at the text (page 7 on).
Section 2 of Chapter 1 is titled “Sin is against God Himself”.
The Old Testament says as much. The OT emphasizes the Law given to the children of Abraham. The OT idea of “sin” is “going against [thinkdivine3]”. The Greek idea of “sin” as “going against the essential laws of nature [or lawessential3] is not apparent.
At first, the OT view of the Law did not entail a personal relation between human and God. The Law was coupled to the covenant. The covenant was with the people of Israel.
For the prophets, disobedience to the Law was treated as if the sinner abused her, I mean, ‘his’ relation to God. God’s laws could be twisted and rejected. God’s own people could call the evil, “good”, and the good, “evil”. Some did not bow to Yahweh. Some rejected the yoke of Yahweh’s commandments, displaying a hardened heart.
For the prophets, the Law entailed a relation between person and God.