These alone were written upon the tables; to these the terms law and commandments are both applied.
By these circumstances and peculiarities they are sharply distinguished and set apart from all other injunctions and obligations. By these they are shown to belong, in a degree, and a sense not common to any other requirements, to the Most High. They are pre-eminently “the law of God,” and “the commandments of God.”
These constitute that New Testament law by which is “the
knowledge of sin” (Rom.3:20), without which “there is no transgression” nor imputation of sin (Rom.4:15; 5:13), and the transgression of which is sin. 1 John 3:4.
These constitute “His [God’s] commandments,” the keeping of which is “the whole duty of man,” and by which every work shall be tested in the judgment (Eccl.12:13,14); and they compose the “royal law” and the “law of liberty” by which James declares we shall be judged at last. James 2:8,12.
They are the “commandments of God,” to which the third message of Revelation 14 brings us, in connection with “the faith of Jesus,” which includes all the teaching and precepts of Christ and His apostles in the New Testament. Rev.14:12.
They constitute that law which God declared that His Son would “magnify” and make “honorable” (Isa.42:21), which he speaks of as “My law,” and declared that He would write it under the new covenant in the hearts of His people ( Jer.31:33; Heb.8:10) - the “His [God’s] commandments” which those will be found keeping who will be summoned at last to enter through the gates into the city of the New Jerusalem. Rev.22:14."
Uriah Smith