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To: Huber; lightman; Cletus.D.Yokel; bcsco
began breaking the Eighth Commandment. . . .

I was wondering how this guy was bearing false witness against his neighbor, then I realized the reporter was using the "other" numbering system for the Ten Commandments. Ironically, I think the Episcopalians, like us Lutherans (as well as the RCs, of course), count "You shall not steal" as the Seventh Commandment.

5 posted on 04/07/2009 6:51:23 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Lutheran pastor)
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To: Charles Henrickson
The Decalogue from the old (Anglican/Episcopal) Book of Common Prayer Catechism (1662):

I. I AM the LORD thy God; thou shalt have no other gods before me.

II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain.

IV. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: In it thou shalt not do any work; thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

V. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

VI. Thou shalt do no murder.

VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

VIII. Thou shalt not steal.

IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

This is the usual Protestant lineup (splitting the Catholic I into I and II and merging the Catholic IX and X into X)

9 posted on 04/07/2009 6:57:41 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: Charles Henrickson
How did he get hold of the money.

Episcopal Churches by canons and bylaws charge the Vestry with all monetary functions of the parish.

Only the discretionary fund is available to clergy, and for most parishes that is controlled by annual audit.

64 posted on 04/08/2009 6:11:45 PM PDT by elpadre (nation)
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