We must, therefore, avoid all these things. Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me. As we have already said, the First Commandment forbids us to worship other than the one God. We shall now consider five reasons for this. We see something similar to this in the customs of men.
Reverence is due to every degree of dignity.
Thus, a traitor to the king is he who robs him of what he ought to maintain. For we have renounced the devil, and we have promised fidelity to God alone. It is, therefore, not easy for one to escape from the habit of sin. In no law are such rewards promised as in the law of Christ. Although the Lord had spoken many things, yet He gave only two tablets of stone to Moses. . . .