I do not believe that not coveting an oxen, has anything to do with love.
Stealing is a sin, but not stealing something does not imply that you love others.
The whole basis of your interpretation is seriously flawed.
It may not prove it, but it certainly does make for a potentially desirable relationship. Under certain circumstances, it might even imply it.
Stand by for an uncharacteristic (of me) qualification of the law.
I am not without an understanding of the historical and cultural considerations of Scripture and even the immutable law of ten commandments as they were given.
The Jews, as they were extracted from ancient Egypt, were largely a barbaric society. And God is
BIG on meeting people where they are.
For example, if He had told them to release all of their slaves immediately, one of two responses seems obvious to me: They would have laughed their way all the way back to Egypt or; The slaves would have been liberated with no civil skills amongst a group of approximately 2 million refugees, whereupon unheard of mayhem would have ensued.
So, instead, He simply regulated their treatment, thus improving a reprehensible condition which could be greatly improved later on.
It is not hard to imagine how tempting it might be for a group of 2 million barbarians tightly woven together in a mass mobilization to steal from one another in an attempt to ease their daily struggles. Resisting such a temptation might have, at the time, indeed stood forth as benevolence by comparison to the expected norm to many.
The ten commandments are an expression of how human beings, under God, ought to behave. They are not universal, however. Such a code would seem strange to the angels who do not reproduce and therefore would have no use for a warning against adultery. The larger principle involved, fidelity and/or loyalty, is universal and is expressed in the higher category of law, echoed by Christ from the Torah in Matthew, Ch. 22:
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
It is conceivable that God could have created other life forms, such as even those living upon this earth, which are governed by Divine Law as well, which may or may not be identical or similar to the ten commandments. The wolf is prophetically foreseen to dwell with the lamb, after all, in Isaiah 11:6.
There is not even a minor flaw in the interpretation cited. It merely exhibits the utter dependence of obeying the second great law upon the true observation of the first and greatest. This seems to be the popular oversight of far too many who profess Christ.