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- noun Alternative spelling of
Decalogue .
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Examples
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Hence, since the precepts of the decalogue are the first precepts of the Law, they direct man to his parents rather than to his country and other kindred.
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Now the precepts of the decalogue are the most important in the Divine law.
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_I answer that, _ The precepts of the decalogue are the first principles of the Law: and the natural reason assents to them at once, as to principles that are most evident.
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Obj. 2: Further, whatever is against a precept of the decalogue is a mortal sin.
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The words of the decalogue are His words, xx. 1, and the protest against the calf-worship (xxxii. -xxxiv.) is an indirect plea for His spirituality.
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Now the precepts of the decalogue are the first principles of the whole Divine Law.
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Strange, a man will admit smashing those ten articles of advisement known as the decalogue and yet deny the inherent quality which surrenders the admission -- vanity.
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His decalogue was a monologue, consisting but of one commandment: Do your duty.
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Masonry has its decalogue, which is a law to its Initiates.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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I will read and expound to them some part of the decalogue, which is the method I have pursued ever since
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