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- noun Plural of
commandment .
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The commandments of God. 2d code, the Book of Moses, as written from the mouth of God, the book of ceremonies, combining ecclesiastical and civil law, which Paul shows was nailed to the cross with all _their Sabbaths_ as _carnal commandments_, because their feasts commenced and ended with a Sabbath.
The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the Commandment Joseph Bates 1832
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The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign, from the Beginning to the Entering into the Gates of the Holy City, According to the Commandment Joseph Bates 1832
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A lord of the land, or an employer of labour, supposes that he has no duty except to keep what he calls the commandments in his own person, to go to church, and to do what he will with his own, -- and Irish famines follow, and trade strikes, and chartisms, and Paris revolutions.
Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856
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A lord of the land, or an employer of labour, supposes that he has no duty except to keep what he calls the commandments in his own person, to go to church, and to do what he will with his own, -- and Irish famines follow, and trade strikes, and chartisms, and Paris revolutions.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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Various opinions they had about it; but Solomon, in this book, determines the question, and assures us that to fear God and to keep his commandments is the whole of man.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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I recall one of the 10 commandments is not to bear false witness.
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An exhaustive list of commandments is rarely the best way to influence behaviour.
Open door Meg Pickard 2010
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One of the commandments is really an escape hatch –
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To use the Koran argument as a basis to argue against the 10 commandments is a canard because the 10 commandments have context in our history while the Koran does not.
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First, the 10 commandments is the source for our laws and is part of our heritage, and second it does not establish religion.
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