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Updated: June 7, 2025
The new meaning is a perfectly legitimate and logical deduction, and in this sense there is no difference between the Decalogue and the Sermon, between the ethics of the Old and the ethics of the New Testament.
European critics of Buddhism have often found fault with its ethics as being a morality of renunciation, and in the explanation epitomized above each section of the path is interpreted in this way. But this negative form is not a peculiarity of Buddhism. Only two of the commandments in our Decalogue are positive precepts; the rest are prohibitions. The same is true of most early codes.
As we have already said, we do not regard the Decalogue as binding on us because given to Israel; but we do regard it as containing laws universally binding, which are written by God's finger, not on tables of stone, but on 'the fleshly tables of the heart. All the others are admittedly of this nature. Is not the Sabbath law likewise?
What's the fundamental principle of biology? DICK: You don't know yourself. MAURY: Don't hedge! DICK: Well, natural selection? MAURY: Wrong. DICK: I give it up. MAURY: Ontogony recapitulates phyllogony. FIFTH YOUNG MAN: Take your base! MAURY: Ask you another. What's the influence of mice on the clover crop? FOURTH YOUNG MAN: What's the influence of rats on the Decalogue?
The commands of the Church are six; and these six have quite thrown into the shade the ten of the decalogue. They are the payment of tithes, the not marrying in the prohibited seasons, the hearing of mass on Sundays and festivals, the keeping of the prescribed fasts, confession once a-year at least, and the taking of the communion in Easter week. The last two are strictly enforced.
The craving for more than ordinary 'good works' shows a profound mistake in the estimate of the ordinary, and a fatal blunder as to the relation between 'goodness' and 'eternal life. So Christ answers the question by quoting the second half of the Decalogue, which deals with the homeliest duties, and appending to it the summary of the law, which requires love to our neighbour as to ourselves.
As Max stared at the withered, lined face, which was growing each moment more repulsive in his eyes, a feeling of horror and of intense pity for Dudley seized him. To be pursued, as his friend evidently was pursued, by this vicious old hag, was a fate hideous enough to expiate every crime in the Decalogue.
The opportunities before the American composer are enormous, and only half appreciated. Whereas, in other arts, the text-book claims only to be a chronicle of what has been done before, in music the text-book is set up as the very gospel and decalogue of the art.
Any virtue or value which is strong enough to live will pass from generation to generation even while evil is making the same journey." While we hold that this tendency, this natural sluggishness in laying hold of the things of the higher nature is not in itself guilt, it becomes so by the voluntary adoption of the lower forces as the guide of life. Nature has her own decalogue.
Is not such a man guilty of the highest ingratitude to that most beneficent Being, by a direct and avowed disobedience of his most positive laws and commands? "'I need not tell you that adultery is forbid in the laws of the decalogue; nor need I, I hope, mention that it is expressly forbid in the New Testament.
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