humanity. And by Hebrew I understand theological initiation, since this nation was clearly set up by God from above as the forbearers. 2.97 It is necessary for us to be not only murderers of bodily passions, but also eradicators of impassioned thoughts in the soul, according to the holy man who said, “At dawn I killed all the sinners of the earth in order to eradicate from the city of the Lord all who commit lawlessness,”349 that is, the passions of the body and the lawless thoughts of the soul.