7 Metaphors for commandments

To know His boundless love, and mercy, and knowing that, to trust in Him utterly, and submit to Him utterly, and obey Him utterly, sure that He loves us, that His will to us is goodwill, that His commandments must be life.

" "I used to think, grandmother," observed Ned, "that the tenth commandment must be the least important of all; I did not suppose there could be any very great harm in merely wishing for what belongs to another person; but I shall never think so in future.

The Fourth Commandment, of course, is a slip of the pen.

And the supreme commandment on which his mother had ever insisted was truth.

He adds: 'The Fifth Commandment, as it stands, would be an excellent compromise between ancestor-worship and Monotheism.'

Now, such a lawa solemn commandment of Godmany writers on slavery are of the opinion, perhaps too confident opinion, was in force in the Jewish nation (Deut. xxiii, 15); and yet the system of servitude on which it bore, and which you cite as the pattern and authority for your own, lived in spite of it.

These ten commandments have been the rules and the reins of youthful generations, who without them would have been wild and undisciplined.

7 Metaphors for  commandments