The Bible In Paintings, #36: MT. SINAI #4 – 10 COMMANDMENTS!

Bing Images | c. 2000 BC -- c. 90 AD | Father, Son & Holy Spirit

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GOD GIVES THE LAW

E X O D U S . . 2 0
New International Version, emphases added
Abridged – the complete text is in your Bible

1 And God spoke all these words:

2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

7 “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God...

8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

13 “You shall not murder.

14 “You shall not commit adultery.

15 “You shall not steal.

16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

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18 When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance 19 and said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.”

20 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning.”

21 The people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

EXODUS 24
12 The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

13 Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God. 14 He said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Aaron and Hur are with you, and anyone involved in a dispute can go to them.”

15 When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it, 16 and the glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered the mountain, and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses from within the cloud. 17 To the Israelites the glory of the Lord looked like a consuming fire on top of the mountain. 18 Then Moses entered the cloud as he went on up the mountain. And he stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

EXODUS 31
18 When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

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AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE, artists have been eager to portray God giving His Ten Commandments to Moses. With more than 100 images to show you, which is far too many for one installment of this series, here is the second of four posts focusing on the Decalogue.

There are several distinct varieties of images, so for viewing coherence they're grouped into like kinds. Today we continue with

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S T A I N E D . . . G L A S S

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St. Paul Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Seattle, Washington

Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Ripon Cathedral, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England

by MASTER GERLACHUS
“Moses receives the tablets” - c.1150, Munster Landesmuseum, Munster, Germany

Detail, Church St Etienne Fecamp, Normandy, France

Holy Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Peterhouse Chapel, Cambridge, England

by LAWRENCE SAINT
Pharaoh, Moses and Aaron – Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

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Again, here is the Bing page "MOSES STAINED GLASS”,
showing various glassmakers’ conceptions.
Several shown here are serious works worthy of interest,
by unknown artists except as noted.

Also, here are links to compendia of three masters
who painted Biblical scenes prolifically:

REMBRANDT van RIJN

GUSTAV DORÉ
(241 wood engravings for
La Grande Bible de Tours)

JAMES TISSOT

Finally, here are links to the
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to FReeper left that other site,
who allowed God to make her His conduit
for incomparable enthusiasm, encouragement,
education, advice and technical assistance!

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SNEAK PEEK: Next time,

10 COMMANDMENTS, AGAIN

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At the Holy Spirit's prompting, I am surveying "Bible art" to give God glory, as many of these artists have done, and for my own amusement and learning; and I thought others might enjoy it and be blessed by it, too. My plan is to proceed methodically from left-to right, Genesis to Revelation, as the Lord wills. Back soon with another.

The Bible encourages us to meditate on it (Ps. 1:1-3, 119:11-16, etc.); these artists have done so, and their works can assist us and enrich our own thoughts about biblical characters, incidents and concepts, and increase our faith in He who is behind it all. As you encounter and consider these images and the related Scriptures and the Spirit enlightens your understanding, please share it with us!

But it is not only oil-on-canvas that can so help us; I refer to the astonishing video series The Chosen, which strolls through the four Gospels at the most leisurely pace. The eight episodes of Season 1 are finished, and the second of a planned seven seasons is coming soon. I say "leisurely" because after an entire year’s viewing Jesus still has only seven of the apostles (although He's preparing to call up Thomas from the minor leagues--but Thomas is skeptical, of course). Anticipating a canvas of fifty-plus hours instead of a movie's paltry two hours, The Chosen turns the characters (especially including Jesus!) into three-dimensional humans and brings the Gospels alive--you have never seen anything even remotely like it! Here is the Official Trailer.

Here is a link for free viewing of The Chosen: “Works with your phone, tablet, and you can cast to your Roku or Chromecast.” Last fall I paid $34.98 for DVDs and ongoing internet access—best 35 bucks I’ve ever spent (I don’t recall how much our marriage license cost, but then it was 42 years ago).

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Written With The Finger of God:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoFSpoAbXLc

Movie Clip

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Written With The Finger of God:

The first set was, the second set God made Moses write himself.............

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Exo 34:1
“ “Cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke...”

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I was tempted....

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Mel Brooks is a genius!.................

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Thanks for adding that—wish I had. Ol’ CB had a good imagination!

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He is--Blazing Saddles is full proof.

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he pushes the envelope of societal norms and that’s what makes him so funny!.................

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Surprise is the trigger of humor, and Mel understands and uses that. By definition, we expect societal norms to be respected, and when they are disrespected cleverly....

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Yep...cuz Moses smashed the first set.

He broke all the commandments at the same time!

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He did indeed! :-)

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You’re getting ahead of the narrative, LOL. The golden calf is still three installments ahead—they’re still collecting “the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing.”

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LOL...I’ve read the Book.

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Just now I was in 1 Chronicles 22 where the ageing David tells young Solomon he has set aside for constructing the Temple “one hundred thousand talents of gold,” or 3,750 tons. That’s a bunch of earrings. Oh, and a million talents of silver.

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David was very talented.

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Go to your room.

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