Decalogue

created by Webster 1913

(thing) by Deborah909 (4.7 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Sep 16 2000 at 0:50:56

Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?
No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency:
Swear not at all; for, for thy curse
Thine enemy is none the worse:
At church on Sunday to attend
Will serve to keep the world thy friend
Honour thy parents that is, all
From whom advancement may befall
Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive
Officiously to keep alive
Do not adultery commit;
Advantage rarely comes of it
Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat
When it's so lucrative to cheat:
Bear not false witness; let the lie
Have time on its own wings to fly:
Thou shalt not covet, but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.

- Arthur Hugh Clough, "The New Decalogue"

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:55:30

Dec"a*logue (?; 115), n. [F. d'ecalogue, L. decalogus, fr. Gr. ; ten + speech, to speak, to say. See Ten.]

The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.

Nate on the Voting/Experience System	The Ten Commandments	'Swounds	Decalogist
Decalog	Abrahamites	The Jewish Cemetery at Newport	Ambrose Bierce
Leonard the Priest	drip tip	Freedom isn't Free	Dekalog
menorah	monotheism	Saved!	Arthur Hugh Clough
white	graven image	The Reader's Bill of Rights	Assisi Decalogue
Care of the aged	stalker	lucrative	To the drive who keeps taking me

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