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  • Then Allen marched to the door of the commandment's quarters, and striking three blows upon it with his sword hilt, commanded him to come forth and surrender.

    This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

  • The sages of the Rabbinic era, powerless to ensure this commandment's fulfillment, argued that it only comes into effect in the land of Israel.

    Velveteen Rabbi 2009

  • And are you saying that the commandment's reference to a law is a distraction?

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • And are you saying that the commandment's reference to a law is a distraction?

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The sages of the Rabbinic era, powerless to ensure this commandment's fulfillment, argued that it only comes into effect in the land of Israel.

    Velveteen Rabbi 2009

  • And are you saying that the commandment's reference to a law is a distraction?

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • He speculated that, no doubt, an 8-day-old Jewish infant, in some inchoate way, likely also senses the depth of the commandment's import, and that his soul, pure and new, pines to undergo the procedure.

    Cross-Currents 2008

  • My heart rose high as I heard him, for it was concerning the struggle against tyranny for the freedom of life, how that the wildwood and the heath, despite of wind and weather, were better for a free man than the court and the cheaping-town; of the taking from the rich to give to the poor; of the life of a man doing his own will and not the will of another man commanding him for the commandment's sake.

    A Dream of John Ball; and, a king's lesson William Morris 1865

  • In Thomas Watson's study on the Ten Commandments, he applies the fifth commandment's charge "Honor thy father" to five different kinds of fathers: the political (the civil magistrate), the ancient (the elderly), the spiritual (pastors and ministers), the domestic (the master or employer), and the natural (the biological parent).

    stylos 2010

  • a man doing his own will and not the will of another man commanding him for the commandment's sake.

    A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson 1886

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