![]() 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. The four first commandments, concern our duty to God (commonly called the first - table.) It was fit those should be put first, because man had a Maker to love before he had a neighbour to love, and justice and charity are then only acceptable to God when they flow from the principles of piety.Ģ0:3 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. And thus, Christ, having rescued us out of the bondage of sin, is entitled to the best service we can do him. By redeeming them, he acquired a farther right to rule them they owed their service to him, to whom they owed their freedom. He had brought them out of the land of Egypt - Therefore they were bound in gratitude to obey him, because he had brought them out of a grievous slavery into a glorious liberty. He was their God a God in covenant with them their God by their own consent. Because God is the Lord, Jehovah, self - existent, independent, eternal, and the fountain of all being and power therefore he has an incontestable right to command us. Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of 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 Ģ0:2 I am the Lord thy God - Herein, God asserts his own authority to enact this law and proposeth himself as the sole object of that religious worship which is enjoined in the four first commandments. `Thou dost not make to thyself a graven image, or any likeness which in the heavens above, or which in the earth beneath, or which in the waters under the earth. You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not make to 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: Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth: You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth: ![]() Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor 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. "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan Thou shalt not make vnto thee any grauen Image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water vnder the earth.
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