DIETRICH Bonhoeffer on The Ten Commandments
The deacon Stephen before martyrdom calls them
"Living Oracles" --
In every word of the Ten Commandments, God
speaks fundamentally of God self, and this is
their main point. That is why they are God's
revelation. It is not a law but God we are obeying
in the Ten Commandments, and our failure when
we break them comes not from disobeying a law
but from disobeying God. . . It is not merely unwise
to disregard God's command; it is sin, and the
wages of sin are death. This is the reason the
New Testament calls the Ten Commandments
"living words" (Letters & Papers from Prison)
cited in Hornik & Parsons, The Acts of the
Apostles through the Centuries (Wiley - Blackwell
2017)
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