Decalogue

[ UK /dɪkˈælɒɡ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the biblical commandments of Moses
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  • As it turns out, the God who teaches Israel how to live in the Decalogue is the same God who delivered them from slavery in Egypt; God has already extended divine mercy to Israel as a basis for Israel trusting in God. AKMA’s Random Thoughts
  • Bodin was half way between a theist and a deist; he believed that the Decalogue was a natural law imprinted in all men's hearts and that Judaism was the nearest to being a natural religion. The Age of the Reformation
  • The law of nature is substantially identical to the decalogue and was revealed in Eden and is known naturally by all humans such that all are without excuse before God.
  • The God of the Decalogue is uniquely authoritative, cannot be fashioned after our own image (pace Feuerbach), and cannot be controlled: God is absolute, aniconic, and useless. 6 God does not exist for our use. AKMA’s Random Thoughts
  • Mark's quotation of the Decalogue is unusual inasmuch as it refers to a commandment not to defraud, which is interesting. Review of Deuteronomy in the New Testament, edited by Steve Moyise and Maarten J. J. Menken
  • Corresponding to the two divisions of the Decalogue are the two generic virtues which the Mosaic legislation has set as its goal, piety, and humanity, or what the rabbis called charity ([Hebrew: tsdka]). Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria
  • The sun drove through their skins, ripping and smashing tissues and nerves, till they became sick in mind and body, tossed most of the Decalogue overboard, descended to beastliness, drank themselves into quick graves, or survived so savagely that war vessels were sometimes sent to curb their license. A SON OF THE SUN
  • The Decalogue episodes are commonly considered masterpieces of world cinema.
  • That our Saviour comprised the sum of all prayers in this form, is known to all Christians; and it is confessed that such is the perfection of this form, that it is the epitome of all things to be prayed for, as the Decalogue is the epitome of all things to be practised. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • The Decalogue should be the back-bone of a child's training: and it should be proposed on the authority of Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence
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