Thou shalt not commit adultery. — It will be seen that in this arrangement the seventh commandment precedes the sixth. The same arrangement is found in Mark 10:19; Luke 18:20, and James 2:11. On the other hand, the ordinary arrangement appears in Matthew 19:18. There can be no doubt that St. Paul followed an order that was found in the copies of the LXX. that he was in the habit of using. The famous Codex Vaticanus still presents the same order in Deuteronomy 5:17. In Exodus 20:13 it places the seventh commandment, first, then the eighth, then the sixth.

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