10 Metaphors for precept

Though the third precept is the noblest, the first and second are admirable also.

On hearing these doctrines, his fury for some moments abated; but after some deliberation he again looked at me sternly, and said, "Are these five precepts the doctrines of faith and charity of the New Church?"

Precept and example are great opposites.

The actual precepts are broad principles, which are for all times, and apply to the hired servant as well as to the slave.

But when a precept that has been changed is the subject of action, then whoever observes that precept as originally given by God is thereby distinguished as a worshiper of God; and he who keeps it as changed, is thereby marked as a follower of the power that made the change.

Further than this, their precepts are counsels and have reference to no definite law.

The following example does not appear faulty: "Moral precepts are precepts the reasons of which we see; positive precepts are precepts the reasons of which we do not see.

" PRECEPT II.Place the most important words in the situation in which they will make the strongest impression.

These precepts are the civil laws of justice in all the kingdoms of the earth; for without them no kingdom could subsist.

i. 17, 23); and his great precept was Mihi res, non me rebus subjungere (Horace, Epist.

10 Metaphors for  precept