Accordingly, it may be said that the expressions “with Our eyes” and “Our hands,” where the possessive pronoun is plural, have an even stronger claim to eloquence than corresponding expressions with a dual possessive pronoun. If their linguistic usage does not favor “your two hearts” and “their two hands,” then it is all the more fitting that it should not favor “with Our eye” or “with Our two eyes,” or “from what Our hand has made” or “from what Our two hands have made.”

The noun in the possessive construction would then be singular or dual, while the possessive pronoun would be plural. This represents a greater departure from grammatical agreement and eloquence than the former case. Indeed, such wording is positively inelegant here. For if He speaks of Himself in the plural to convey greatness and majesty, referring at the same time to what is attributed to Him in a form that conveys no such greatness would create an inconsistency in expression and disrupt the harmony of the wording.

This is further clarified by the examples cited, such as His words, “Your hearts have inclined,” and “Then cut off their hands.” In these cases, the preference for departing from the dual is explained by the fact that the plural has a single form that is inflected