Excerpt from The Hebrew Lawgiver, Vol. 2 It has been suggested that the Lord's Prayer is the Ten Commandments turned into The thought is interesting; but to carry it out will rather reveal some singular analogies between these two compositions, than sustain an idea too ingenious for exact correctness. No doubt both recognize the one Living God alone as the proper Object of man's thoughts in duty and devotion; but give both compositions into the hands of ten persons, and let each write out an independent harmony upon this suggestion, and we cannot think that any two would agree in attempting to reconcile the separate precepts of duty with the separate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.