ABSTRACT
If we seek to understand and to formulate the rules and requirements of Christian conduct, that must not be taken as any disparagement or suppression of the Ten Commandments. That Decalogue which, according to Jewish tradition, was engraved on the tables of stone by the finger of God, states with remarkable succinctness and clearness the fundamental requirements of a society which is to be healthy and progressive. By God writing these laws on tables of stone is meant that the Ten Commandments are of Divine origin and of universal and perpetual obligation. Necessary in a primitive society and in the foundation of States, they remain necessary forever, whatever additions have to be made as moral ideas develop and as society assumes à more complex organisation.
