The second table of the law was written by the same finger, and came from the heart of the same loving Father. It is simply His statement of the few brief principles which underlie all possible family unity and happiness in the relation of man with man.
But if the vast difference between civilization and savagery is due to the outward observance of the letter of that law, even that observance being forced upon the minority,
But if the vast difference between civilization and savagery is due to the outward observance of the letter of that law, even that observance being forced upon the minority,
Q: what can be said of the possible joy in that ideal state where all, of their own free will, keep not the letter only but also the spirit of the law ?
It was through Jesus Christ that the Holy Spirit was given to us, to write the law, not merely in the letter, and on tables of stone, but in the spirit, and on the fleshly tables of the heart. In all this God had not only His own pleasure but the happiness of His children in view.
"Thou shalt not covet,"(Exodus 20:17) forbids the cherishing of the first germ of the desire that leads to all evil and all misery."
George Fifield
