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MELBOURNE, Australia (LifeSiteNews) — I must admit that I’ve always struggled with the Ten Commandments.
Not just in living them, but even getting them in the right order in my head.
I don’t offer the latter failing as an excuse for the former. But even if it were, I don’t have it to fall back on anymore: recently, I have come to a new appreciation of the traditional ordering of the commandments which means I have no good reason for forgetting it again.
That ordering is as follows:
Honor God. Honor His Name. Keep Holy the Lord’s Day. Honor thy father and mother. Do not kill. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Do not covet thy neighbor’s wife. Do not covet thy neighbor’s goods.
What initially occurred to me concerns the division between the first three commandments and the last seven. The first three, as is obvious, have to do with God Himself and our relation to Him, while the
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