Letter 070 — The Whole Letter: Devarim (Exodus 20)
In Hebrew, the ten are not called commandments. They are called devarim. Words. And words are different from commandments.
In this letter
- Aseret hadevarim — the Ten Words
- Dabar (H1697) as the singular
- The three uses of the phrase in the Torah — Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13, Deuteronomy 10:4
- Why the Latin decem praecepta shifted the frame
- The ten walked one more time as words from a Father, not commands from a superior
- Romans 13 — love as the fulfillment of the law
- A direct pastoral landing for the burdened, the failing, and the frame-corrupted
Scripture — Exodus 20:1-17…
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