Perhaps something like this:
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
“Persons shall adopt measures of high positive regard to the primal executive consultant with maximised internal resources, including all material and notional sources of motivation, and all intellectual capital. This is the prime and initial directive. In addition, a non-primal directive carries similar parameters. Persons shall adopt the same measures of high positive regard in favour of persons of adjacent proximity as for their autonomous investments.”
If this had been the case – no wonder “they dared not ask any more questions!”
Wondering Pilgrim 