Second Commandment

American  

noun

1. “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them”: second of the Ten Commandments.

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Second Commandment

“As a people of faith our adherence is not to the Second Amendment. It’s to the Second Commandment, which is ’Love your neighbor as yourself,” he says.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

But contradicting the famous ban on graven images in the Second Commandment, in this painting God explicitly demands the creation of a work of art.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2017

Then she thought of the words in the Second Commandment: "And the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children."

From The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn

She had probably never even heard the word—except in the Second Commandment, or as a laughing reproach to old Rover—so she really did not know enough to use it now to describe Eleanor's behavior.

From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

Second Commandment: “Thou shalt not make the Likeness of any Thing in Heaven above, or on the Earth beneath, or the Waters under the Earth.”

From Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast by J. V. (Joseph V.) Guerinot