286. The reason why such great holiness and power lay in the law was that it was a summary of the whole of religion. It was written on two tablets, one of which summarises all the provisions concerning God, the other all the provisions concerning man. That is why the commandments of the law are called the Ten Words (Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; 10:4); they are so called because ten means all, and words mean truths. For they contain more than ten words. For ten meaning all, and the institution of tenths ¹ because of this meaning, see Apocalypse Revealed 101. It will be seen in the following pages that the law is a summary of the whole of religion.

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