单词 | first table |
释义 | > as lemmasfirst table first table n. the first part of the Ten Commandments, relating to religious duties (thought to have occupied the first of the two stone tablets of Moses) (cf. second table n. (a) at second adj. and n.2 Compounds 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun] > Mosaic dispensation > decalogue > division of first tablec1405 second table1502 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 311 Bihoold and se þt in the firste table Of heighe goddes hestes. a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) i. 2 (MED) Crist enformyd mor þe ȝonge ryche man in þe preceptys of þe secunde table þan of þe firste table. 1605 King James VI & I Speach in Last Session Parl. sig. B All the impieties and sins, that can be devised against both the first and second table. 1783 E. Arthur Serm. Var. Subj. 254 To all the commandments of God..they must have a sincere respect, and must obey the second, as well as the first table of the law. 1873 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible i. 21 The great commands of the ‘Second Table’ are ultimately based on the relations in which all creatures stand to Him who demands our homage in the ‘First Table’. 1941 Church Hist. 10 217 The natural law is held by Luther to have been misconceived: the pagans left out of their conception of it the religious element expressed in the first table of the Commandments. 2012 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Jan. (Book Review) 12 He stated that the colony's civil authorities could not regulate ‘the First Table’, those among the Ten Commandments that governed religion; they could prosecute someone for adultery, but not for making..graven images. < as lemmas |
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