The People that Moses Had in Mind

When I wrote ‘what kind of people did Moses have in mind?”  I meant “persons,” “individuals.”

But I was wiser than I knew.  Reading his rules, it does seem like Moses had in mind a people.  This is a different perspective for us.

It also explains, in part, why the rules seem to  take so much their existing attitudes and assumptions as a baseline.  A people largely is those attitudes and assumptions.  The kinds of changes in habits and attitudes a people can make are not the same as the kinds of changes in habits and attitudes a person can make just writ large.