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Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 20:12

Exodus 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother.The Fifth CommandmentI. The relationship in which we stand to our parents, a relationship based upon the fact that we owe our existence to them, that we are made in their image, that for so long a time we depend on them for the actual maintenance of life, and that, as the necessary result of all this, we are completely under their authority during childhood. This relationship is naturally made the highest symbol of our relationship to God Himself.II.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 20:13

Exodus 20:13Thou shalt not kill.The Sixth CommandmentI. That this Commandment was intended, as some suppose, to forbid the infliction of capital punishment, is inconceivable. The Mosaic law itself inflicted death for murder, Sabbath-breaking, and the selling of a Jew into slavery. The root of the Commandment lies in the greatness of human nature; man is invested with a supernatural and Divine glory; to maintain the greatness of man it may be sometimes necessary that the murderer, who in his... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 20:14

Exodus 20:14Thou shalt not commit adultery.The Seventh CommandmentI. What it forbids.1. Unchastity in thought and desire (Matthew 5:28; Proverbs 6:18).2. Unchastity in conversation (Ephesians 5:3-4).3. Sensuality in all its forms and actions.II. What it requires.1. To avoid temptation, by carefully keeping the heart (Proverbs 4:23).2. To cherish a regard for God and His will (Proverbs 5:21).3. To keep the body pure as a temple of the Holy Ghost (1 Corinthians 6:17-18).4. To seek lawful wedlock... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 20:15

Exodus 20:15Thou shalt not steal.The Eighth CommandmentI. In this Commandment the institution of property is recognized and sanctioned by the authority of God. The institution of property is necessary--1. For increasing the produce of the earth;2. For preserving the produce of the earth to maturity;3. For the cultivation and development of the nature of man;4. For the intellectual development of man.II. The institution of property imposes upon all men the duty of industry in their callings; the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 20:16

Exodus 20:16Thou shalt not hear false witness.The Ninth CommandmentI. This Commandment is a recognition of those tribunals which are necessary to the peace and to the very existence of the State.II. In this Commandment there is a Divine recognition of the importance of the moral judgments which men pronounce on each other: the judgments which individual men form of other men as the result of the testimony to which they have listened, whether it was true or false; the judgments which large... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 20:17

Exodus 20:17Thou shalt not covet.The Tenth CommandmentI. The history of the world is stained and darkened by the crimes to which nations have been driven by the spirit of covetousness, Covetousness is forbidden not merely to prevent the miseries, and horrors, and crimes of aggressive war, but to train the spirit of nations to the recognition of God’s own idea of their relations to each other. Nations should see underlying this Commandment the Divine idea of the unity of the human race; they... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 20:1

Exo 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, Ver. 1. God spake all, &c. ] All the ten are of divine authority. Papists disannulling the second, that yet they may retain the number of ten words, so loath are heretics to have their asses’ ears seen, divide the last, which yet is called "the commandment," not the commandments. Rom 7:7 Vasques, not able to answer our argument, saith that the second commandment belonged to the Jews only. See Trapp (for summary of Law) on " Exo 20:17 " read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 20:2

Exo 20:2 I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Ver. 2. Which have brought thee. ] God’s blessings are binders; and every deliverance a tie to obedience. See Trapp (for summary of Law) on " Exo 20:17 " read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 20:3

Exo 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ver. 3. Thou shalt have. ] This "thou" reacheth every man. Xenophon saith of Cyrus, that when he gave anything in command, he never said, Let some one do this; but, Do thou this. a No other gods before me. ] But "know" and "serve" me alone "with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind." 1Ch 28:9 Hoc primo praecepto reliquorum omnium observantia praecipitur, saith Luther. In this first commandment the keeping of all the other nine is... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 20:4

Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth: Ver. 4. Thou shalt not make unto thee, ] i.e., For religious use; for civil they may be made. Mat 22:20 Howbeit the Turks will not endure any image, no not upon their coins, because of this second commandment. The Papists by their sacrilegious practices, have taken away this commandment out of their... read more

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