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Exo_20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Ver. 3. Thou shalt have.] This "thou" reacheth every man. Xenophon saith of Cyrus, that when he gave anything in command, he never said, Let some one do this; but, Do thou this. {a}
No other gods before me.] But "know" and "serve" me alone "with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind." {1Ch_28:9} Hoc primo praecepto reliquorum omnium observantia praecipitur, saith Luther. In this first commandment the keeping of all the other nine is commanded. {See Trapp (for summary of Law) on "Exo_20:17"}
{a} Hoc tu facias. - Xenophon’s Cyropaed.