A Commandment (n.) that a people never tires of hearing is related to its chief failings — the Greeks loved the four Socratic virtues because they so needed them and had so little talent for them.
A Commandment (n.) can rob and kill — where were there ever better robbers and killers than holy words like "thou shalt not rob, thou shalt not kill," which killed truth itself?
Commandment (n.) is an inclination that cannot explain itself, like the sexual drive — yet instead of being condemned with the other drives, it is made their judge.
Commandment (n.) is lower than "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the gods of the Greeks).
Commandment (n.) in the feeling of it, and in the agitation of offending against it, raises the question of who is commanding here, and whose disfavour we fear.