Decalogue

The Decalogue (from the Greek for ‘Ten Words’) is a theological term for the Ten Commandments, found in Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-22. These commandments form the basis of God’s moral law, which Jesus summarised in Matthew 22:37-40: ‘“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”