Author: Bob Richter (---.195.23)
Date: 12-02-2002 13:32
This is actually seriously off-topic, I suppose, but I thought I'd bring it up anyway (since I'm an ass.)
As a self-proclaimed heretic against a certain Protestant sect, I have a passing familiarity with the Bible. Indeed, I was forced to memorize large quantities of it in my youth. (Envigorating mental excercise that I nonetheless consider to have been a colossal waste of time.)
One of the passages I was required to memorize was the Ten Commandments, as found in Exodus and again in Deuteronomy.
Thus, I was somewhat confused when the article on pacifism was called "The FIFTH Commandment." To my knowledge, at the time, the fifth Commandment read something like "Thou shalt honor thy father and mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
It eventually struck me that the Ten Commandments you were referencing differed from the ones with which I was familiar.
Your Fifth Commandment is my Sixth.
I did some reasearch, and it seems that the Ten Commandments, as revered by Catholics, were altered from the original (Hebrew) to remove the Second (a stricture against idolotry) and split the Tenth into two (apparently to preserve the Number of Commandments.) This had the unfortunate effect of moving Commandments 3-9 up the list so that they became Commandments 2-8.
Just found that interesting.
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