For he that said,
Do not commit adultery,
said also,
Do not kill.
Now if you commit no adultery, yet you kill, you are become a transgressor of the law.
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Hilary of Arles
AD 449
Why does James choose these two commandments as his examples? Because they are the ones which deal most closely with loving and with hating one's neighbors.
