Hammurabi Code Concerning Sacred Virgins
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery (Exo. 20:14)
This Commandment reads and it defines a right ad personam, created by the contract of marriage. Contrast in this instance the regulations of Hammurabi's Code concerning sacred virgins.
By this Law Moses erected a bulwark to protect the relations of the sexes and flung a rampart about the home.
He here declares by obvious implication the sanctity and inviolability of marriage and protects true love. Marriage is made safe; the most tender of all relationships. Marriage lies at the basis of all social arrangements indeed; of society,
property, ethics, state and home.
The sixth Commandment made life safe supposedly and this Commandment decorates it. Students of social progress have traced …show more content…
Thou shall not covet (Exodus 20:17)
This is the climax of the entire Decalogue; it is the tenth length in a complete fence of law. This Commandment is a law of motive, and therefore, the most remarkable of all. It legislates against evil desire, and therefore penetrates the heart. It lie ultra vires a temporal magistrate. It speaks not to the citizen but to the man. In origin it could therefore proceed from no one but a divine sovereign.
Were the Decalogue a criminal code for the State, this Commandment would plainly be out of place. Earth's courts take cognizance only over acts. This Commandment therefore is new in its introspection. It forbids the illicit longings; which never fulfills itself in a criminal deed.
Was it not for this precept of the law one might possibly say, "all these have I kept from my youth up". But the law made nothing perfect (Hebrews 7:19). By its introspection this Commandment hints of deeper spiritual principles underlying
the others. It tells us that a chaste man does not even desire another man's wife; and it assures us that illicit conduct always has its roots in illicit desire.
This last Commandment of the Decalogue, therefore, completes the circle of the Law, which began with precepts against polytheism and idolatry and ends with a prohibition against coveting; for covetousness is
This Commandment reads and it defines a right ad personam, created by the contract of marriage. Contrast in this instance the regulations of Hammurabi's Code concerning sacred virgins.
By this Law Moses erected a bulwark to protect the relations of the sexes and flung a rampart about the home.
He here declares by obvious implication the sanctity and inviolability of marriage and protects true love. Marriage is made safe; the most tender of all relationships. Marriage lies at the basis of all social arrangements indeed; of society,
property, ethics, state and home.
The sixth Commandment made life safe supposedly and this Commandment decorates it. Students of social progress have traced …show more content…
Thou shall not covet (Exodus 20:17)
This is the climax of the entire Decalogue; it is the tenth length in a complete fence of law. This Commandment is a law of motive, and therefore, the most remarkable of all. It legislates against evil desire, and therefore penetrates the heart. It lie ultra vires a temporal magistrate. It speaks not to the citizen but to the man. In origin it could therefore proceed from no one but a divine sovereign.
Were the Decalogue a criminal code for the State, this Commandment would plainly be out of place. Earth's courts take cognizance only over acts. This Commandment therefore is new in its introspection. It forbids the illicit longings; which never fulfills itself in a criminal deed.
Was it not for this precept of the law one might possibly say, "all these have I kept from my youth up". But the law made nothing perfect (Hebrews 7:19). By its introspection this Commandment hints of deeper spiritual principles underlying
the others. It tells us that a chaste man does not even desire another man's wife; and it assures us that illicit conduct always has its roots in illicit desire.
This last Commandment of the Decalogue, therefore, completes the circle of the Law, which began with precepts against polytheism and idolatry and ends with a prohibition against coveting; for covetousness is