The Great Commandment by C. M. French

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 11, 1912

The Great Commandment

By C. M. French

C. M. FRENCH

MANY quote Matt. 22: 37-39 with an air of considerable satisfaction, teaching that Christ, by giving these two commandments, intended to convey the idea that these two new commandments, as they term them, took the place of the entire law, and therefore the ten commandments were “done away.” But waiving the point that this does away with the law too soon, for these same ones say that the law was “done away at the cross,” we are at a loss to know how we are to love the Lord our God with all the soul and with all the mind if we do not keep the first four commandments, in fact, the whole law; and how we can prove that we love our neighbor as ourselves if we do not keep the last six of the ten.

Verse 40 explains the matter perfectly: “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Without the first four commandments we can not have the “first great commandment,” and without the last six we can not have “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”

Alamosa, Colo.