In the Decalogue it is prohibited to covet a man's wife on the same ground as his man slave, his maid slave, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is his.
In his decalogue he describes himself as "a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children until the third and fourth generation.
Therefore, since the precepts of the decalogue are ordained by God, it seems that God can dispense with them.
Therefore the precepts of the decalogue do not include all the moral precepts.
But thedecalogue contains a precept about the Sabbath-day observance.
But since the things that are evident are the principles whereby we know those that are not evident, these other moral precepts added to the decalogue are reducible to the precepts of the decalogue, as so many corollaries.
But the precepts of the decalogue were given immediately by God, as stated above (A.
But among the precepts of the decalogue are only such as regard acts of justice; as may be seen by going through them all.
Thus the first commandment of the decalogue forbids the worship of strange gods: and to this are added other precepts forbidding things relating to worship of idols: thus it is written (Deut.
And for this reason the decalogue includes those precepts only which refer to our neighbor and to God.
Wherefore all the precepts of the decalogueare referred to these, as conclusions to general principles.
This consideration, of itself, shows the absurdity of holding to the change of the original day, while the validity of the entire Decalogue is admitted.
Though the covenant character of the Decalogueis abolished, by reason of the Sinaitic Covenant being entirely abrogated, the moral character of it remains untouched, and just the same as it was before a covenant was based upon it.
But we think we have placed the morality of the Decalogue upon grounds that cannot be successfully disputed.
Again, the abrogation of the Decalogue is supposed to be taught in Romans 7:4, 5, 6.
The doing away or abolishment, therefore, spoken of in the above passage, cannot refer to the Decalogue or the moral law itself, but to the Mosaic dispensation or ritual.
And, as the Decalogue was not merely national as a whole, so there was nothing national in the fourth commandment.
The truth of the case is, that these penalties belonged not to the Decalogue itself as first promulgated, any more than they belong to it now under the milder dispensation of the Gospel.
It cannot be supposed that the Decalogue was abolished, without expressly contradicting Christ's testimony, Matt.
The decalogue exhibits a perfect standard of morality; and a standard of morality not providing for the public acknowledgement and stated worship of God as the Creator, would be essentially defective.
The Decalogue in which this is found was not included in the abrogated ritual.
The perpetual obligation of theDecalogue implies, of course, the perpetual obligation of the Sabbath as enjoined in the fourth commandment.
Aside from this precept, there is nothing in the decalogue to show by whose authority the law is given.
In answer to the claim that at the death of Christ the precepts of the decalogue had been abolished with the ceremonial law, Wesley said: “The moral law, contained in the ten commandments and enforced by the prophets, He did not take away.
In the very bosom of the decalogue is the fourth commandment, as it was first proclaimed: “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
The people are taught to regard the decalogueas a dead letter.
It is said by some that he who sins against one commandment of the Decalogue sins also against the rest, thus that he who is guilty of one is guilty of all.
From all this it can be seen who those are that worship God Himself and who those are that worship other gods, thus who live according to the first commandment of the Decalogue and who do not.
The evils enumerated in the Decalogue include all the evils that can ever exist; therefore the Decalogue is called the ten commandments, because "ten" signifies all.
What these three senses in the commandments of the Decalogue are can be seen from the following summary explanation.
For a man must either will evil or will good; and so far as he wills good he does not will evil; and it is granted him to will good when he makes the commandments of the Decalogue to be of his religion, and lives according to them.
That the ten commandments of the Decalogue are all things of the Word in brief can be seen only from the three senses of those commandments, which are as above stated.
Shunning Evils In the previous chapter two things are said to be necessary that works may be good, namely, that the Divine of the Lord be acknowledged, and that the evils forbidden in the Decalogue be shunned as sins.
The third and fourth commandments of the Decalogue contain things that must be done, namely, that the Sabbath must be kept holy, and that parents must be honored.
The Commandments in General The commandments of the Decalogue are called the ten words or ten commandments, because "ten" signifies all; consequently the ten words mean all things of the Word, and thus all things of the church in brief.
The Fourth Commandment The fourth commandment of the Decalogue is that parents must be honored.
After quoting two of the commandments of the Decalogueand giving them an interpretation that wholly transforms them, he proceeds to cite several old laws from these Mosaic books, in order to set his own word firmly against them.
One of these also is a law of the Decalogue itself.
The Decalogue and the laws forming the Book of the Covenant are the most ancient portions; they preserve the Mosaic type in its relatively oldest and purest form.
When Moses gave the decalogue which was to guide the Hebrews to salvation, he preceded it by the law: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself.
The incident paves the way for the account of the preparation of the new tables of stone which contain a series of laws quite distinct from the Decalogue (q.
Believing in one God, they contented themselves with the Decalogue and the Paternoster.
Accordingly, we find that the mode of its republication gave to this Decalogue a grandeur and weight shared by no secular or ceremonial precepts.
Although the Ten Commandments were given along with the civil and ceremonial laws of the Hebrews, we do not include them along with the latter, because the Decalogue was, unlike them, given for all men and all dispensations.
To state the arguments from the laws of Moses and the Decalogue has not required a large space, because those conclusions are so plain and sound, that many words were not needed.
The Decalogue throws no protection around concubines, against the coveting of others.
The people are accused of all the acts that are forbidden in the decalogue of Exodus xx.
An earlier decalogue which deals principally with ritual, and which contains an early prophetic attempt to free the worship of Jehovah from heathen abuses, is found in Exodus xxxiv.
Then follows the other version of the decalogue already referred to--ritual rather than moral, xxxiv.
The Decalogue is addressed to Israel in the 2nd pers.
The special relation between Israel and Jehovah was established on the basis of the decalogue (Ex.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decalogue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
