When they paid their devotion to the true God, they must not have any image before them for the directing, exciting, or assisting their devotion. Secondly, They must not bow down to them - Shew any sign of honour to them, much less serve them by sacrifice, or any other act of religious worship. Our religious worship must be governed by the power of faith, not by the power of imagination. It also forbids us to make images of God in our fancies, as if he were a man as we are. It is certain it forbids making any image of God, for to whom can we liken him? #Isa 40:18|,25. First, The Jews (at least after the captivity) thought themselves forbidden by this to make any image or picture whatsoever. Here is, The prohibition we are forbidden to worship even the true God by images, #Ex 20:4|,5. The second commandment is concerning the ordinances of worship, or the way in which God will be worshipped, which it is fit himself should appoint. That it is a sin that dares him to his face, which he cannot, will not, overlook. It intimates, That we cannot have any other god but he will know it. There is a reason intimated in the last words before me. This prohibition includes a precept which is the foundation of the whole law, that we take the Lord for our God, accept him for ours, adore him with humble reverence, and set our affections entirely upon him. Whatever is loved, feared, delighted in, or depended on, more than God, that we make a god of. Pride makes a God of ourselves, covetousness makes a God of money, sensuality makes a God of the belly. The sin against this commandment, which we are most in danger of, is giving that glory to any creature which is due to God only. This law was pre - fixed because of that transgression and Jehovah being the God of Israel, they must entirely cleave to him, and no other, either of their own invention, or borrowed from their neighbours. 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.ģ Thou shalt have no other gods before me.Ĥ 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:ĥ Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me Ħ And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.ħ Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.Ĩ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.ĩ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:ġ0 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:ġ1 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.ġ2 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.ġ6 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.ġ7 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.20:3 The first commandment is concerning the object of our worship, Jehovah, and him only, Thou shalt have no other gods before me - The Egyptians, and other neighbouring nations, had many gods, creatures of their own fancy.
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