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单词 commandment
释义
Examples from literature
  • 'I suppose it is because he breaks the commandments.
  • First he gave them laws, beginning with the Ten Commandments and ending with the Golden Rule, and then established courts where laws could be faithfully administered.
  • In the Torah there are ten commandments concerning retribution for murder, which would not be possible to enforce at the present time and under existing conditions of the world.
  • It was better to have a real captain who was a scoundrel, than a man who knew nothing but kept the Commandments.
  • What is more extraordinary is that they did keep God's commandments for the rest of their lives.

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Despite the students' own expectations of consensus, interpretations of the commandments showed wide ranges of variation, with little evidence of consensus.
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They have a spottier record on the second commandments, those associated with errors of omission.
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Each nation wanted to know what was in it first, or heard some of the commandments and rejected it.
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He gave orders to the other parts and the limbs of the body to abide by the commandments of the heart.
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After all, thecommandmentdoes not necessarily forbid all art, but only the creation of objects of worship.
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According to the finalcommandment, anyone who did not agree with all the preceding commandments should automatically be regarded as a traitor.
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What is the relation between the two commandments?
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Appropriate feelings of satisfaction and respect will develop with the practicing of the commandments.
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It knows only concrete commandments, in part positive godly prescripts, in part natural right statements that arise from the essence of the matter.
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The explanation tacitly accepted is the inability to keep the collective commandments (' ' thou shalt not ' ').
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This is the greatest and the firstcommandment.
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The paper emphasized the duty to obey the caliph both by religiouscommandmentand in view of the waning strength of the empire.
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It is the pause from the 'beginning' theme that adds meaning to thecommandment; then, the quick iterations suggest a swirl of 'creative' activity.
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And they do not govern according to thecommandmentto maintain the common good and brotherly unity among us.
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By choosing to grant the writ on the return of ' specialcommandment' it was attempting - unsuccessfully as it turned out - to insulate itself from this charge.
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