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MARK 10:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
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Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
You know the commandments: you shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother — the commandments cited are from the second table of the Decalogue — the human-relations commands. The substitution of you shall not defraud for you shall not covet is significant and may reflect a specifically economic application — covetousness expressed as defrauding others. The list Jesus gives is the social dimension of the law.

Church Fathers on Mark 10:19

A certain man had heard from the Lord that only they who are willing to be like little children are worthy to enter into the kingdom of heaven, and therefore he desires to have explained to him, not in parables, but openly, by the merits of what works a man may attain everlasting life.

Bede · 8th century

I wonder at this young man, who when all others come to Christ to be healed of their infirmities, begs of Him the possession of everlasting life, notwithstanding his love of money, the malignant passion which afterwards caused his sorrow.

Theophylact · 11th century

For in that He loved, or kissed him [ed. note: osculaius, interpretation in Ed. Ben. (?)], He appears to affirm the truth of his profession, in saying that he had fulfilled all those things; for on applying His mind to him, He saw that the man answered with a good conscience.

Origen · 3rd century · in Evan. tom. xv, 14
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