1. See P. Gourevitch, We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1998) 88.
On the other hand, The Ten Voluntary Initiatives from the stable of Ted Turner, the owner of CNN, must qualify as being the most pretentious; see Humanists of Utah.
2. B. K. Waltke, with Charles Yu, An Old Testament Theology (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006) 411.
3. This division has more than merely literary analytical or pedagogical significance; they became one of the defining emblems in a bitter dispute, involving lives lost in no small numbers, between the Puritans and Anglicans in the mid-17th Cent.; see J. Sears McGee, The Godly Man in Stuart England: Anglicans, Puritans, and the Two Tablets, 1620-1670 (New Haven: Yale University Press , 1976).
4. Christopher Seitz thinks that such a reading of the Decalogue "amounts to a deduction, a second-order theological explanation." "What needs to be pressed," notes Seitz, "is whether second-order deductions conform to the logic and judgment of the plain sense of the OT witness, and if so, how." "The Ten Commandments: Positive and Natural Law and the Covenants Old Testament and New—Christian Use of the Decalogue and Moral Law," in I Am the Lord Your God: Christian Reflection on the Ten Commandments, ed. By Carl E. Braaten and Christopher R. Seitz (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005),24.