Verse 11— For he that said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not kill. The command here brought to view by the apostle are two of the original precepts spoken from Sinai's summit. Both were spoken by God. The apostle's argument appears in all its cogency when we reason that as God gave both these laws, now if you violate one and not the other, how can you claim exemption from punishment, or insist that you are innocent, since you set at defiance the authority of God? Have we the right to say one precept is proper and ought to be observed, and the other useless? By violating one we despise the authority that enjoined both, and are as guilty as though the whole law was disregarded, for the simple reason that under like circumstances neither would be observed, because not restrained in the one violation by a sense of right and virtue.