Perhaps you will say that I am making too many abrupt transitions between humanistic interpretation on the one hand and foreign policy on the other, and that a modern technological society which along with unprecedented power possesses the internet and F-16 fighter-jets must in the end be commanded by formidable technical-policy experts like Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Perle.
To be effective, planning should avoid fragilising the city, and should accompany and take advantage of its spontaneous dynamics ("Nature to be commanded must be obeyed").
This, together with the improbability that a head-on cavalry charge against the spear-armed Thebans could have succeeded (because horses will generally shy from such a barrier), has led Gaebel and others to suggest that Alexander must have been commanding a portion of the Macedonian phalanx at Chaeronea.
One must obey because one has been commanded and not because of the particular content of the command.
In the sixth century, Saint Caesarius of Arles taught that the whole glory of the Jewish Sabbath had been transferred to Sunday and that Christians must keep Sunday as the Jews were commanded to keep the Sabbath, but the Council of Orléans in 538 reprobated this tendency as Jewish and non-Christian.
When, in August 2011, Obama said that Assad must go and implied that he must go immediately, he was commanding beyond his power to enforce, and he had nobody in view to replace Assad.
The cinematographer must be in command of all these processes.
He feels he must be in command.
If the first is chosen, it would imply that whatever God commands must be good: even if he commanded someone to inflict suffering, then inflicting suffering must be moral.
The prime minister is the head of government and has extensive powers but must be able to command the confidence of the legislative branch.
