Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Decalogue"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Decalogue
the name given by the Greek fathers to the ten commandments;
"the ten words," as the original is more literally rendered (Ex.
20:3-17). These commandments were at first written on two stone
slabs (31:18), which were broken by Moses throwing them down on
the ground (32:19). They were written by God a second time
(34:1). The decalogue is alluded to in the New Testament five
times (Matt. 5:17, 18, 19; Mark 10:19; Luke 18:20; Rom. 7:7, 8;
13:9; 1 Tim. 1:9, 10).
These commandments have been divided since the days of Origen
the Greek father, as they stand in the Confession of all the
Reformed Churches except the Lutheran. The division adopted by
Luther, and which has ever since been received in the Lutheran
Church, makes the first two commandments one, and the third the
second, and so on to the last, which is divided into two. "Thou
shalt not covet thy neighbour's house" being ranked as ninth,
and "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife," etc., the
tenth. (See {COMMANDMENTS}.)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Decalogue \Dec"a*logue\ (?; 115), n. [F. d['e]calogue, L.
decalogus, fr. Gr. ?; de`ka ten + ? speech, ? to speak, to
say. See {Ten}.]
The Ten Commandments or precepts given by God to Moses on
Mount Sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Decalogue
n : the biblical commandments of Moses [syn: {Decalogue}, {Ten
Commandments}]
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