#754: The Nine Commandments.

You heard me: why there are only nine, not ten of them.

Over the past few months, I have puzzled about the ordering of the commandments in Exodus 20. Catholics and Protestants both concur that there are Ten Commandments, but divide them differently. Protestants regard the prohibitions against having other gods before the LORD and making idols as discrete commandments, while Catholics take them as one; by con…