“For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.”
For he who said, 'You shall not commit adultery,' also said, 'You shall not murder.' If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker — the examples drawn from the Decalogue show that law-keeping is not a matter of selective obedience but of unified submission to the lawgiver's will. The same voice that forbade adultery forbade murder; to obey one commandment while breaking another is to demonstrate that the transgression stems not from circumstance but from divided loyalty. The 'lawbreaker' (parabatēs) violates the law as an integrated whole.
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