He plays a role similar to that of Moses.”43 But, in typical legal fashion, the lawyer is not content with such a vague level of generality; the term “neighbor” in the second commandment requires technical definition. This is no minor matter of academic exegesis for the lawyer. What is at stake is nothing less than his practice of legal piety. It is in order “to justify himself” (dikaiōsai heauton)—that is, to defend his own conception of legal justice (dikaios), and hence his own daily lifestyle