Translations:Is there a "two tables" division in the Ten Commandments?/8/en
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As mentioned above, the Augustinian division of the commandments saw three in the first table and seven in the second, whilst that enumerated by Origen and Jerome and adopted by Reformed Protestants saw the first and second tables comprised of four and six commandments respectively. A third tradition, dating back to Philo of Alexandria, which was occasionally mentioned but gained no traction in early modern commentaries, classified the Fifth Commandment to honour father and mother as a religious rather than a social obligation, rendering the two tables equal at five precepts apiece.[1]
- ↑ Willis, Jonathan. The Reformation of the Decalogue: Religious Identity and the Ten Commandments in England, C.1485–1625. N.p.: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
