How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #10
[W]e had talked about it, about how if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, Thou shalt not kill must be it…. (7.1.10)
For all their concern with other people's sin, the people in the novel don't seem to care too much about the huge sin of killing that is constantly taking place through the war and the various revenge plots that they deal with. Bayard's the only one who seems to notice this fact.