"Eastern Orthodoxy
The Eastern Orthodox Church holds
its moral truths to be
chiefly contained in the Ten Commandments.[68] A confession begins with the Confessor
reciting the Ten Commandments and asking the penitent
which of them he has broken.[69] ...
[68] Sebastian Dabovich, Preaching in the Russian Church, p. 65. Cubery (1899).
[69] Alexander Hugh Hore, Eighteen Centuries of the Orthodox Church, p. 36. J. Parker and Co. (1899)." -
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from the Eastern Orthodox Catechism
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489. Which are the
chief and general
commandments of this law?
The following ten, which were
written on two tables of stone:
1.
I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt have none other gods beside me.
2.
Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth: thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them.
3.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
4.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy: six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath to the Lord thy God.
5.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that it may be well with thee, and that thy days may be long upon the earth.
6.
Thou shalt not kill.
7
. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8.
Thou shalt not steal.
9.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, nor his land, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any of his cattle, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's. Exod. xx. 1-17;
Deut. v. 6-21.
490. You said that
these Commandments were given to the people of Israel:
must we, then, also walk by them?
We must: for they are in substance the same law which, in the words of St. Paul, has been
written in the hearts of all men, that all should walk by it.
491. Did Jesus Christ teach men to walk by the Ten Commandments?
He bade men, if they would attain to everlasting life,
to keep the Commandments and taught us to understand and fulfill them more perfectly than had been done before he came.
Matt xix. 17, and
v.
On the Division of the Commandments into Two Tables.
492. What means the division of
the Ten Commandments into
two tables?
This: that they contain
two kinds of love--love to
God, and love to
our neighbor; and prescribe two corresponding kinds of duties." -
The Longer Catechism of The Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church • Pravoslavieto.com
Ooops, scratch
"Ten" and write
"Nine" of God's Commands +
"1 man made tradition, nullifying God's Commands"...:
"
537. Is
the Sabbath kept in the Christian Church?
It is
not kept, strictly speaking,
as a holy day ...
538. How, then, does the Christian Church
obey the fourth commandment?
She still to every six days keeps a seventh, only
not the last of the seven days, which is the Sabbath, but the first day in every week ... " -
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