The Least Commandment

i get what your'e saying, but love the Lord with all of your being also looks like this:

where do i get this from the 10 commandments?
and is this the least commandment?

while i'm in this chapter, what about -


is this the least commandment?
can i derive this exclusively from one or a combination of the famous 10 commandments? would it be 'bearing false witness against my neighbor' if i didn't bury my dung, or . . ?

post's wife was saying this morning that what i'm looking to figure out is hand-in-hand with 'whatever you did for the least of these, you did for Me'

at first i wasn't understanding her, thinking 'that's about people, not commandments' -- but there's more to what she's thinking than what i first thought.

"And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and all thy strength."
Dt 6:5, LXX

"thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself"
Lv 19:18

These are normal and existing commadmenst in the Law. Its not just a summarization.

I think that elachistón belongs to entolón. Its hard to put in English, but adjective and noun it belongs to are both either plural or singular, it cannot be different. Its the same in my native language.

oh, yeah "these" is obviously not a noun but a pronoun ((smacks self on head))
probably the adjective belongs to the noun. and the noun is plural, so the pronoun and the adjective have to also be. makes sense

smacking myself on forehead probably hasn't helped, btw, but i do it anyhow

Yep, if a man love God, automatically he love his neighbor

1 john 4:20


If a man say, “I love God,” and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

You really do think mathmatically, don't you?

Sorry, I had Algebra I and II in high school, but haven't needed it since, so you lost me at congruency partitions.

But how about the two greatest commandments = the definition of the commandments, while all the Law (including the Ten Commandments and the entire Law of the OT) = components of the definition?

Can STEM-think meet SPAG-think there? (Considering I don't know what STEM means other than knowing that is the science/technology-loving end of the spectrum, you might not know what SPAG is. Spelling, punctuation, and grammar. The language/word-nerd end of the spectrum. Where I live. )

I already tried that one. It didn't work with him.

The animal sacrifice was a shadow of what real sacrifice looks like. Jesus did the real sacrifice to the propitiation of the Father for whosoever will believe, so we no longer need to shadow sacrifice anymore.

And God is our rest, so if we follow him, we do rest. And, still stuck in these fallible bodies, we still require real rest at least one day a week, or bodies, souls, and spirits grow too weary to follow him. So Sabbath is still in and the Lord is still our real rest.

Jesus said he didn't come to do away with the law. He came to fulfill it. We didn't fulfill it. He did, so the law did not die. It was clarified. He is our Law. Follow him, and we follow the Law, because the Law is who he is. He is our strength. He is our Law.

He fulfilled all the Law. He is the Law. See the Law and you see who the Lord is.

You also see how we fall short. And how much we need him to work in us to be doers of the Word.

(In which case, I think the only thing we're disagreeing with is one adjective -- "majority." Drop that, and we agree.)

I'm more inclined to think that's the second commandment -- love your neighbor, as you love yourself. And I think that because it deals with people, not God. (People = neighbor. God = God.)

And I see that first one clarifying the "don't steal" commandment. What would you do if you came across a runaway slave? Who are you obligated to -- the master or the slave? Which one is your neighbor? (Both are.)

And do remember, most slaves became slaves in ways that don't happen anymore. Most slaves were either from war or from poor and slaves for seven years, (or Year of Jubilee, whichever came first), unless the slave chooses to stay. POWs became slaves, but most slaves usually came from family. If I lost everything my family had to bring me in, take care of me, and I had to contribute to the family income. There was one other kind of slave. If I stole your goat and ate it, but couldn't afford to pay you what I was supposed to pay for it, (I can't remember if it was two times or four times the price of the animal), then I became your slave for seven years.

Which makes me wonder why a slave would run away. If I were a POW, it is likely I'm running away to go back home. Why would I ask you to help me? You're of the people I was fighting. I'd rather go home. If I owed you a goat, I'd feel obliged to pay you back whichever way works. If you're family and I'm running away, what did you do to me that I wanted to run away from family? Which makes me think of the laws about slavery, where it was okay to beat them in certain ways, but not too much. I would run away, if I'm beaten, in hope that the next person won't beat me.

So, yes, all that out of how to love a neighbor. Which comes under loving a person, not loving God.

As for covering excrement? Also how to love your neighbor. It sounds like it would fit in Emily Post's Book of Etiquette circa 15th century BC. "Clean up your poo." I'd put it under Don't murder, since leaving human poo exposed in vast quantities would be an environmental disaster.

I do understand you want to figure out the difference between greatest and least. I have no idea about that. All I know is it doesn't matter too much, because I've broken every single commandment. Haven't we all?

If we just strive to do what Jesus did, by following His example, we will still keep the 10 Commandments. Since these all called for the death penalty. These are lesser commandments that deal with restitution and so on. Why is it so hard for Christians to acknowledge the Fourth Commandment? Because the spirit of this world system just won't allow it.

Post, I love how smart you are, both mathematically and linguistically. I love your humility too. I will never be able to answer your original question, but if someone can, I'll be thrilled.

I am completely lost on what you're saying to me here.

What I am saying is the hardest part I ever had in understanding the scriptures, was the tradition about what the Bible said that was handed me since childhood. The biggest hurdle was coming to accept the Fourth Commandment. Once I did that, many other things opened up for me. Think about it.

So the fourth commandment is the least or the greatest? Because I have no idea why you're stuck on it.