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20. St Matthew says that our Lord first answered, “Keep the commandments,” and when the young man asked, ‘What kind of commandments?’ expecting probably some recondite points of casuistry—minute rules (Halachôth) out of the oral Law—our Lord to his surprise mentions the broadest and most obvious commandments of the Decalogue.
μὴ μοιχεύσῃς. Our Lord seems purposely to have mentioned only the plainest commandments of the Second Table, to shew the young man that he had fallen short even of these in their true interpretation; much more of that love to God which is the epitome of the first Table. Thus does Christ ‘send the proud to the Law, and invite the humble to the Gospel.’