Ten Commandments
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God's commandments · the Decalogue · the ten commandments · you shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery...
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
The biblical commandments cited both as a structuring order for crimes and as the textual basis of true religion.
but that which is here followed is the same used by God himself in the delivery of his commandments.
And these four truths are unfolded and laid down in an equal number of commandments, the first of which plainly declares the unity of God—the second forbids any representation, by painting or image, to be made of that being, who is invisible to mortal eye.
Adversus Marcionem
The core moral commandments given by the Creator, cited as older and more authoritative than any human legal code.
Yet it was not from your god that my Creator learned to prescribe, "You shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, you shall not covet another's, honour father and mother, and you shall love your neighbour as yourself.