Precept

Yeah.

Martin Luther wrote a catechism where he kinda unpacked the Ten Commandments, and one of the things that he did with this is to say that, you know, this, this commandment applies first to your parents, b- but your parents represent people that God has given responsible to look after you.

Mm.

And so he goes to s- extend to say, "And there are wider people who have been given responsibility to look after you." Uh, there might be like, you know, the governing authorities in an area, right, who have responsibility for the territory.

Basically, people call them household codes.

Mm-hmm.

But how do husbands and wives interact? How do children interact with their parents? And it's all consistent with what we see in the Ten Commandments, this very commandment of, of honor your father and mother.

And so it's not like we get to the New Testament era, where we're going, "Yeah, uh, you've heard it said, but I say to you." It's, "No, we're gonna maintain this." And I do think it goes back to what we were saying before.

Thy light shall guide me in the narrow way.

Precept and promise, law and love combining.

Till light shall vanish in eternal day.

Shall we pray? Our kind Heavenly Father, we want to thank you for thy word.

See, Yahweh has a, a prescribed way, as I've heard a lot of the elders say, you see? A prescribed way that he's teaching us, and it's precept upon precept.

Read.

"Precept upon precept."

Precept upon precept.

"Line upon line."

Line upon line.

Thy light shall guide me in the narrow way.

Precept and promise, law and love combining.

Till night shall vanish in eternal day.

Give me the Bible when my heart is broken.

Give me the Bible, holy message shining.

Thy light shall guide me in the narrow way.

Precept and promise, law and love combining.

Till I shall vanish in eternal day.

We

might be about due at that point, being done with the Ten Commandments.

Maybe we can talk Heather into an episode.

Actually, I was going to bring that up after we stopped recording, but yeah, if we could get Heather in here and make her a part of the conversation, I think that'd be great.

But just get October 13th and October 16th on your calendar, and it'd be great to see you.

Yep.

Well, speaking of completing our Ten Commandments series, we're not today.

But as we're counting down the Ten Commandments, we are up to number six.

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A Precept from Ebony and Crystal by Clark Ashton Smith, read for LibriVox by Mary Ann Spiegel.

A Precept.

With words of ivory, of bronze, of ebony, Of alabaster, marble, steel, and gold, The beauty of the visible is told; But how with these express the unseen loveliness, Splendor in light, and harmony, and sound, The heart hath felt, the sense hath never found? No shining words of stone; shadow and cloud alone, These shall the poet seek eternally Whose lines would carve the mask of mystery.

End of poem.

Thy light shall guide me in the narrow way.

Precept and promise, law and love combining.

Till night shall vanish in eternal

day.

Give me the Bible, holy message shining.

Thy light shall guide me in the narrow way.

Precept and promise, law and love combining.

Till I shall vanish in eternal day.

Seeing him fall back rigid and motionless, Donna Sancia burst into sobs and cried in a voice choked with tears, The king is dead! Let us pray for his soul! At the very same moment all the princes hurried from the room, and every passion hitherto suppressed by the presence of the king now found its vent like a mighty torrent breaking through its banks.

long live joan robert of gabaine louis of tarentum and bertrande of artois were the first to exclaim while the prince's tutor furiously breaking through the crowd and apostrophizing the various members of the council of regency cried aloud in varying tones of passion gentlemen you have forgotten the king's wish already you must cry long live andre too Then, wedding example to Precept and himself, making more noise than all the barons together, he cried in a voice of thunder,

Long live the King of Naples!

but there was no echo to this cry and charles of durazzo measuring the dominican with a terrible look approached the queen and taking her by the hand slid back the curtains of the balcony from which was seen the square and the town of naples so far as the eye could reach there stretched an immense crowd illuminated by streams of light and thousands of heads were turned upward towards castelnuovo to gather any news that might be announced charles respectfully drawing back and indicating his fair cousin with his hand cried out people of naples the king is dead long live the queen long live joan queen of naples replied the people with a single mighty cry that resounded through every quarter of the town the events that on this night had followed each other with the rapidity of a dream had produced so deep an impression on joan's mind that agitated by a thousand different feelings she retired to her own rooms and shutting herself up in her chamber gave free vent to her grief so long as the conflict of so many ambitions waged about the tomb the young queen refusing every consolation that was offered her wept bitterly for the death of her grandfather who had loved her to the point of weakness the king was buried with all solemnity in the church of santa chiara which he had himself founded and dedicated to the holy sacrament enriching it with magnificent frescoes by giotto and other precious relics among which is shown still behind the tribune of the high altar two columns of white marble taken from solomon's temple There still lies Robert, represented on his tomb in the dress of a king and in a monk's frock, on the right of the monument to his son Charles, the Duke of Calabria.