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Third Commandment

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noun

  1. “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain”: third of the Ten Commandments.


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Arthur Kennedy as a newsman turned phony evangelist, in Ben Hecht's play The Third Commandment.

From Time Magazine Archive

This has been considered in the examination on the Third Commandment.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.

A. By the Third Commandment we are commanded to keep holy the Lord's Day and the holy days of obligation, on which we are to give our time to the service and worship of God.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.

The Third Commandment The third commandment is, to keep the Sabbath holy.

From Spiritual Life and the Word of God by Swedenborg, Emanuel

THE Third Commandment bids us sanctify the Lord's day; but in what that sanctification shall consist, it does not say.

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by Stapleton, John H. (John Henry)

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