COMMAND—COMMANDMENT.
Moses went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.—Exodus, xxxiv. 4, 28.
Jesus said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.—Matthew, xxii. 37, 38, 39, 40.
How, in one house,
Should many people, under two commands
Hold amity?
Shakspere.
Whatever hypocrites austerely talk
Of purity, and place, and innocence,
Reforming as impure what God declares
Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all
Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain
But our destroyer, foe to God and man.
Milton.
Heralds of creation cry,
—Praise the Lord, the Lord most high;
Heaven and earth, obey the call,
Praise the Lord, the Lord of all.
For He spake, and forth from night
Sprang the universe to light;
He commanded,—Nature heard,
And stood fast upon his word.
J. Montgomery.
What is the first and great command?—
To love thy God above:
And what the second?—As thyself
Thy neighbour thou shalt love:
Who is my neighbour?—He who wants
The help that thou canst give:
Jesus, our blessed Saviour, said—
This do, and thou shalt live.
Anon.