Ten Commandments

See also: Law, rules, discipline.

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Moses receives the Tablets of the Law - Villeréal - Notre-Dame Church - Stained glass of the story of Moses.

The Ten Commandments were given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. They are the basis of the moral law of the Jewish and Christian faith.

Jesus said: "(...) you must not think that I have come to abolish the Law. No. Only, since I am Man and understand the weaknesses of man, I wanted to encourage you to follow it by directing your spiritual gaze not towards the dark abyss but towards the luminous Abyss. For if the fear of punishment can restrain three times out of ten, the certainty of the reward gives you momentum seven times out of ten. Trust is therefore more effective than fear. And I want you to possess it fully, assuredly, to be able to achieve not seven parts of good out of ten, but ten parts out of ten and conquer that very holy reward of Heaven"(...)

Then: "I do not change an iota of the Law. And who gave it amid the thunders of Sinai? The Most High (...)"

To a person who asked him: "Master, in the Law, what is the great commandment?" Jesus replied: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your spirit. This is the great, the first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law, as well as the Prophets. (Matthew 22:36-39) | Mark 12:28-34).

In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"

• Come. I will show you the ten commandments as they are: love, love, love. Love of God for you, from you to God. Love for your neighbor.
• "(...) you must not think that I have come to abolish the Law. No. Only, since I am Man and understand the weaknesses of man, I wanted to encourage you to follow it by directing your spiritual gaze not towards the dark abyss but towards the luminous Abyss. For if the fear of punishment can restrain three times out of ten, the certainty of the reward gives you momentum seven times out of ten. Trust is therefore more effective than fear. And I want you to possess it fully, assuredly, to be able to achieve not seven parts of good out of ten, but ten parts out of ten and conquer that very holy reward of Heaven."
• (Then): "I do not change an iota of the Law. And who gave it amid the thunders of Sinai? The Most High. Who is the Most High? The One God and the Trinity. Where did He draw it from? From His Thought. How did He give it? By His Word. Why did He give it? Because of His Love. So you see that the Trinity was present. And the Word, obeying as always the Thought and the Love, spoke in the name of the Thought and in the name of the Love."
• The most holy of the ten commandments: "Love God and your neighbor."
• "For you, do what God says. And above all, strive to perfectly practice the two main commandments. If you love God with all the resources of your being, you will not sin, because sin is a pain caused to God. Whoever loves does not want to cause pain. If you love your neighbor as yourselves, you will be respectful sons to your parents, faithful spouses to your partner, honest men in business, without violence towards enemies, without lies in your testimonies, without envy for what others have, without lustful desires for another's wife. You will not want to do to others what you would not want done to you; steal; kill, slander, enter like a cuckoo into another's nest."
• The commentary is given by Jesus during a series of "lectures" at La Belle Eau in November of the first year of public life: "I am the Lord your God".
• "You shall not make gods in my presence, you shall not have other gods before me."
• "Do not take my name in vain."
• Honor your father and your mother."
• "You shall not commit impurity of body nor of consent."
• "Keep the feasts holy."
• "Do not kill."
• "Do not Test the Lord Your God."
• "Do not covet another's wife."
• "Do not give false testimony."
• "Do not desire what belongs to another."
• The Ten Commandments and their sanctions - Ten "no's". Not one more. And these are the ten pillars of the temple of the soul.
• Whoever even sets aside the smallest of the commandments and teaches others to do the same will be the least in the Kingdom of heaven.
• What sort of Law is this? Something so strict that it is impracticable? No. It is a set of ten holy and easy precepts that the morally good, truly good man is conscious must be observed. It says: …" (Jesus gives the 10 commandments and comments on them).
• The ten commandments of God and those of Satan: The ten commandments of the Lord: love the true God with all your being, love your neighbor as yourself, respect the Sabbaths without profaning them, honor your parents, do not kill, do not steal, do not commit adultery, do not give false witness, do not desire another's wife or belongings. Oh! You are blessed if, coming from afar, you surpass those who were of the Lord's house and left it, goaded by the ten commandments of Satan: enmity with God, self-love, corruption of worship, hardness toward parents, desire for homicide, attempt to steal another's holiness, fornication with Satan, false testimonies, envy for the nature and mission of the Word, and the horrible sin that ferments and ripens deep in the hearts, too many hearts.
• Wisdom is to obey the ten Commandments of God. (He recites them again). Whoever does this is wise and conquers Life and the never-ending Kingdom.
• Decalogue, the dwelling where the Lord will live until the day when those who have lived in faithfulness to the Law will go live in Him in the Kingdom of Heaven.
• "Woe to you, teachers of the Law, for you load people with burdens they cannot bear, making a punishment of the paternal Decalogue given by the Most High to His People."
• You see that what I tell you is still the Decalogue. It is always the Decalogue, the word of the Rabbi. Indeed, good, justice, and glory are found in the fulfillment of what the Decalogue teaches and commands to do. There is no other doctrine.

In other works by Maria Valtorta

Notebooks of 1943

• Dictation of October 21: As you see, if you violate the Decalogue, you violate love (p.399).
• Dictation of December 19: My Son did not change a word of it because the word of God can be altered by no one. Remember that. He confirmed the Law in its ten untouchable commandments. However, he replaced its complementary parts, which were no longer suited to the new age, with his doctrine of love (p.572).

In the fundamental Christian texts

In the Bible

• The giving of the ten commandments to Moses in Exodus 20:2-17 or Deuteronomy 5:6-21.

In the Catechism of the Catholic Church

• The natural moral law, the old law, and the evangelical law.
• Comparison of the Ten Commandments.
• Commentary on the Ten Commandments.