| In the Small Catechism, his explanations of both the First Commandment and the Sixth break the normal paraphrastic nature of the work. |
| The nearer things were to the Ark containing the Commandment tablets the more holy they were. |
| Up to this point, Puritan Sabbatarians argued a dual nature of the Fourth Commandment. |
| God would never have left Jesus Christ, the Savior who never sinned, to violate The Fourth Commandment by observing the wrong day of the week. |
| The Commandment and the Paraclete are yoked together with a resulting emphasis on discipleship as bearing true witness to Christ. |
| But sin, taking occasion by the Commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. |
