AT the time he received the Commandments on Mount Sinai, Moses must have glimpsed their true spiritual import and grandeur. The prophets and disciples, generally, understood the foundational character of the Decalogue, as is indicated in their many references to it. Christ Jesus said (Matt. 5:17), "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." He also said (John 10:10), "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." He proved the purpose of God's law to be beneficent.
History records that many people have recognized the rightness and usefulness of the Ten Commandments; indeed, they are deeply implanted in the history and laws of many lands. Humanity has felt the constructive force and protecting wisdom of these Commandments in proportion to its acceptance of them. The ordinary and widely accepted theological teachings concerning the Decalogue, however, do not reveal its deeper and more practical values.
The study of Christian Science brings to human perception with ever-increasing clarity the true meanings of the Scriptures. For example, this Science illumines the great fact that God is infinite Love. It is as inconsistent with this truism to assume that the Ten Commandments are intended to punish mankind, to restrict the freedom of men, or to impose difficult burdens as it is to think that the laws of mathematics are so intended. It becomes clear to the enlightened thinker that these laws are intended solely for the purpose of blessing humanity.
