Ten
Commandments
2. Make no idols, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
3. Not take the name of the Lord in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day.
5. Honor your father and mother.
6. Shall not murder Rom. 13:9
7. Not commit adultery. Rom. 13:9; 1 Cor. 6:9
8. Not steal. Rom. 13:9; 1 Cor. 6:9; Eph. 4:28
9. Not bear false witness.
10. Not to covet thy neighbors house, his wife, his male servant, his ox, his donkey or anything else belonging to him. Rom. 13:9
Here
we have the Ten Words of the moral Law. They are introduced by a proclamation
of God concerning Himself: first as to His name, "I am Jehovah"; second, as to His relation to them, "thy God"; and, third, the
basis of relationship, His deliverance of them from bondage. The Ten Words fall
into two sections: the first, of four commandments dealing with the
relationship between God and man; the second, of six commandments conditioning
human interrelationships. The Ten Words constitute a philosophy of life as well
as a law. Man's first business is with God. His every other relationship
depends on that and, indeed, is created by it. The effect produced on the
people by these words was a sense of fear. They were made conscious of the
holiness of God. Because they were sinners, the fear was both natural and
necessary. Nevertheless Moses at once on divine authority said to them "Fear not," which meant that
they might "fear" and "sin not." The apparent
paradox teaches that when man has the fear of God he need have no other fear.
Finally, the way of God's approach to them was provided. It was the way of the
altar and sacrifice. The instructions concerning the altar are revealing. It
must be of simple and unmade things, devoid of human workmanship, in which the
heart of man might make its boast.
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