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the customs, the traditions, the culture
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that has shaped us.
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The laws, he says, have begat us.
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And the use of the term "begat"
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In our translation is clearly
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intended to resonate with something you might say
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we might think of as something biblical about it.
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The citizen is, in a word,
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created,begat by the laws themselves,
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they exercise a kind of paternal authority over us
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Such that disobedience to any law
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constitutes an act of impiety