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The Bible is the Statute-Book of God’s Kingdom.
圣经（The Bible）是神国度的法典（Statute-Book）。
Therein is comprised the whole body of the heavenly law; the perfect rules of a holy life, and the sure promises of a glorious one.
其中包含了天上律法的整个主体；圣洁生活的完美规则，以及荣耀生命的确定应许。
And the Decalogue, or Ten Commandments, is a summary or brief epitome of those laws, written by the immediate finger of God: and contracted into so short an abridgment, not only to ease our memories, but to gain our veneration; for sententious commands are best befitting Majesty.
而十诫（Decalogue），或十条诫命（Ten Commandments），是这些律法的总结或简短的缩影，由神亲手写下：并被浓缩成如此简短的摘要（abridgment），不仅是为了减轻我们的记忆负担，更是为了赢得我们的敬畏；因为简洁的命令最符合威严（Majesty）。
And, indeed, if we consider the paucity of the expressions, and yet the copiousness and variety of the matter contained in them, we must needs acknowledge, not only their authority to be divine, but likewise the skill and art in reducing the Whole Duty of Man to so brief a compendium.
而且，确实，如果我们考虑到表达的简少，然而其中所包含内容的丰富和多样，我们必然要承认，不仅它们的权柄是神圣的，而且将“人当尽的本分”（Whole Duty of Man）归纳成如此简要的纲要（compendium）的技巧和艺术也是神圣的。
The words are but few, called therefore the Words of the Covenant, the Ten Words: Exod. 34:28 but the sense and matter contained in them, is vast and infinite.
这些话语虽然很少，因此被称为“圣约之言”（the Words of the Covenant）、“十言”（the Ten Words）：出埃及记 34:28；但其中包含的意义和内容却是浩瀚无穷的。
The rest of the Scripture is but a commentary upon them: either exhorting us to obedience, by arguments; or alluring us to it, by promises; or frighting us from transgressing, by threatenings; or exciting us to the one, and restraining us from the other, by examples recorded in the historical part of it.
圣经的其余部分不过是对它们的注释（commentary）：或是以论证（arguments）劝勉我们顺服；或是以应许吸引我们顺服；或是以威吓（threatenings）使我们不敢悖逆（transgressing）；或是以记录在其历史部分中的榜样（examples）来激励我们行善，并约束我们不行恶。
TABLE OF CONTENTS
目录
To the Reader
致读者
Introduction
引言
Preface to the Ten Commandments
十诫的序言
The First Commandment
第一条诫命
The Second Commandment
第二条诫命
The Third Commandment
第三条诫命
The Fourth Commandment
第四条诫命
Introduction to the Second Table
第二块法版的引言
The Fifth Commandment
第五条诫命
The Sixth Commandment
第六条诫命
The Seventh Comandment
第七条诫命
The Eighth Commandment
第八条诫命
The Ninth Commandment
第九条诫命
The Tenth Commandment
第十条诫命