Augustine of Hippo : Remembering the words of the Lord, Moses commands the following: And you will write those words on the jambs of your houses and your doors. As you literally do not remember or read that any Israelite did, because nobody can really do it, unless you distribute those words in many parts of your house, what does this mean? Is it perhaps a hyperbolic mandate, like many others? — QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 17 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)