Concerning the Ten Commandments, which are the Heads of the Law (43)

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for, inasmuch as I myself am a man, I will not think it right to cherish a pompous and tragedian-like dignity of manner, but I will keep myself within my nature, not transgressing its boundaries, but accustoming my mind to bear human events with complacency and equanimity. Not only because of the unforeseen changes by which things of one character assume a different appearance, both in the case of those in prosperity and of those who are in adversity, but also because it is becoming, even if prosperity were to remain unaltered and unshaken that a man should not forget himself.

v.3.p.146

For these reasons it appears to me to have been that God expressed his oracular commandments in the singular number, as if they were directed to a single individual.

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