Divine Commands and God Trumping the Universal

In the context of Kierkegaard's 'Fear and Trembling', the Universal should not, without exceedingly good cause, be suspended. The age of fracture we are living in takes little account of universal economic principles and regards 20 trillion dollars of public debt as an existential cloud to be ignored with partisans making up their own romantic realities explaining it as trivial.

Kierkegaard's concept of the suspension of ethics seems to be an individual one. Though he didn't say so, I believe that the relationship of the individual to the Universal is a secular paradigm, whereas in the case of divine command, while the individual may be required to suspend ethics or rather morality (for ethics is probably better described as how one implements the moral), the Universal remains in effect.

Thus it is important to distinguish the Universal from divine command. The Universal is entirely temporal whereas divine command is transcendent. If one follows the will of God through faith, and suspends a moral paradigm, defense isn't required in the temporal world for violating the Universal, for God will provide it, if He wills it so.

Socrates' death is a different paradigm. in my opinion, he was fundamentally opposed to the Athenian democracy, was old in a tough era without good medical treatment (Emperor Sulla later died from worms rotting his stomach and his guts literally fell out) so a good peaceful death wasn't such a bad option; one attended even with glory, good friends and wine, and did not die as a result of enacting a divine command. Following his conscience to subvert the Athenian demos was his choice in effect, for he seemed to prefer Sparta judging from Plato’s The Republic.