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Excerpt from A Middle English Treatise on the Ten Commandments: d104, Notes and Introduction
The exposition in these treatises invariably takes this form. There is a prologue - of varying length - concerning the origin of the commandments, showing why they should be kept. The command ments follow in order. Under each commandment are mentioned the manifold ways in which this particular mandate of God is broken, the various forms of sin especially condemned by this commandment. The discourse concludes with an exhortation, or a threat, to keep the laws of God. In all of the Middle English expositions of the com mandments I have been able to examine, the same plan is followed. Both the subject matter and the form are the common property of mediaeval religious literature, and have their ultimate source in Holy Writ and the writings of the Fathers. The phrasing became stereo typed and the expression formalized.
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