Lord’s Day 46
Q121. Why the words in heaven?
These words teach us not to think of God's heavenly majesty as something earthly, and to expect everything for body and soul from his almighty power.
Scripture Proofs — King James Version
Jeremiah 23:23–24
“I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.”
Acts 17:24–25
“God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;”
Matthew 6:25–34
“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?”
Romans 8:31–32
“What shall we then say to these things? If God for us, who against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”
Modernized Commentary — Zacharias Ursinus (1616)
That this commandment, which concerns lust or sinful desire, is one commandment and not two, is clear for several reasons.
1. Moses repeats it in a different order in Exod 20:17 and Deut 5:21, as we have already shown.
2. Moses presents it as a single verse in both of those passages.