I : God FirstIIIa : The Name I : God's Honour
IIIb : The Name II : Man's Integrity - Who is to be Trusted?
I willingly acknowledge my indebtedness to the following authors, whose books I had by me throughout the preparation of the series:
Brevard S. Childs, Exodus (The Old Testament Library), [SCM Press] 1974
Joy Davidman, Smoke on the Mountain, [Hodder & Stoughton] 1955
Leslie B. Flynn, Now a Word from Our Creator, [Victor Books]
Ronald S. Wallace, The Ten Commandments, [Eerdmans] 1965
William Purcell, The Plain Man Looks at the Commandments, [Collins] 1966
Walter C. Keiser Jr., Toward Old Testament Ethics, [Academic Books] 1983
I am grateful to God for the experience He gave me in the preparation of these studies. I found myself continually excited by fresh insights and the total relevance of these "Ten Words of God" to our contemporary scene. Their truth is timeless.
I felt too, again and again, that an authority inheres in them that needs no support from beyond themselves. C. H. Spurgeon said once that "the Lion of the Tribe of Judah needs none to fight for Him. He needs only to be uncaged and He will fight for Himself." I felt much the same about the Commandments. They need no verification from sources outside themselves; rather, they are self-vindicated truth by which other sources are verified, the standard against which other moral counsels are measured. In them, God Himself has spoken.
Rev. Paul T. Harrison B.D., Brisbane, June 1992
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