Existing Studies and Evidence Database Cross-Reference¶
cmd-evidence.db Status¶
- Database exists but is empty (0 items across all tiers)
- This is expected since cmd-01 is the first study in the cmd series
law-evidence.db Tally (Read-Only Cross-Reference)¶
| Tier | Continues | Abolished | Neutral | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E | 146 | 0 | 378 | 524 |
| N | 73 | 0 | 75 | 148 |
| I-A | 64 | 0 | 3 | 67 |
| I-B | 18 | 22 | 7 | 47 |
| I-C | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| I-D | 0 | 35 | 0 | 35 |
| TOTAL | 302 | 58 | 466 | 826 |
Key Existing Evidence Items (from law-evidence.db)¶
E Items Directly Relevant to cmd-01¶
Origin and Delivery: - E001 | Continues | Exo 20:1; Deu 5:4, 22 | God spoke the Ten Commandments directly to the assembled people (also in: law-01, law-03, law-09, law-25) - E002 | Continues | Deu 5:22 | God spoke the Ten Commandments "with a great voice: and he added no more" - E003 | Continues | Exo 31:18; Deu 9:10 | The Ten Commandments were "written with the finger of God" on stone tablets - E004 | Continues | Exo 32:15-16 | "The tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables" - E005 | Continues | Deu 4:13 | God identified the Ten Commandments as "his covenant" - E006 | Continues | Exo 31:18; 34:29; Deu 9:9, 11 | The tablets are called "tables of testimony" and "tables of the covenant" - E007 | Continues | Exo 25:16, 21; 40:20; Deu 10:2, 5 | God commanded the tablets to be placed inside the ark - E008 | Continues | 1Ki 8:9 | "There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone" - E009 | Continues | Deu 31:9, 24-26 | Moses wrote "this law" in a book, placed beside the ark (contrast: inside)
Character of the Law: - E010 | Continues | Rom 7:12; 7:7 | "The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good" (Paul identifies the Decalogue by quoting 10th commandment) - E011 | Continues | Rom 7:14 | "The law is spiritual" - E012 | Continues | Psa 19:7 | "The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul" - E013 | Continues | Psa 19:8-9 | "The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes... true and righteous altogether" - E014 | Continues | Psa 111:7-8 | "All his commandments are sure. They stand fast for ever and ever" - E015 | Continues | Psa 119:89 | "For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven" - E016 | Continues | Psa 119:152 | "Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever" - E017 | Continues | Psa 119:160 | "Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever"
NT Treatment: - E021 | Continues | Mat 5:17-18 | Jesus: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law...one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass" - E022 | Continues | Luk 16:17 | "It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail" - E023 | Continues | 1Jn 3:4 | "Sin is the transgression of the law" - E025 | Continues | Rom 3:31 | "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law" - E028 | Continues | Rom 13:8-10 | Paul quotes five Decalogue commandments as the content love fulfills - E029 | Continues | Jas 1:25; 2:10-12 | "The perfect law of liberty" / "law of liberty" with 6th and 7th commandments - E030 | Continues | 1Jn 5:3 | "This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments" - E031 | Continues | Rev 12:17 | End-time saints "keep the commandments of God" - E032 | Continues | Rev 14:12 | "The commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus" - E033 | Continues | Rev 22:14 | "Blessed are they that do his commandments"
Before Sinai: - E034 | Neutral | Gen 26:5 | Abraham kept "my commandments, my statutes, and my laws" - E037 | Continues | Rom 2:14-15 | Gentiles "do by nature the things contained in the law...work of the law written in their hearts"
New Covenant: - E038 | Continues | Jer 31:33 | "I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts" - E039 | Continues | Heb 8:10; 10:16 | "I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts" - E041 | Continues | Mat 19:17-19 | Jesus directs to the Decalogue for entering life
Two-Tables: - E042 | Neutral | Mat 22:37-40 | Jesus summarizes law in two love commands
2 Cor 3 Reference: - E048 | Neutral | 2Co 3:7 | "The ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious"
N Items Directly Relevant to cmd-01¶
- N001 | Continues | The Bible presents two different modes of delivery for the Decalogue vs. other laws
- N002 | Continues | The Bible assigns the Decalogue and the book of the law two different repositories
- N003 | Continues | The attributes the Bible ascribes to the law mirror God's own attributes
- N004 | Neutral | Paul identifies the law in Romans 7 as the Decalogue by quoting the 10th commandment
- N005 | Neutral | The replacement tablets contain the same words as the originals
- N011 | Continues | The Bible attributes two different authorships
- N012 | Continues | The Bible uses two different sets of naming conventions
- N013 | Continues | Moses draws an explicit textual distinction in Deuteronomy 4:13-14
- N014 | Continues | "He added no more" marks a boundary
- N015 | Continues | The two-mode distinction is maintained across multiple authors and centuries
- N034 | Continues | Eduth (H5715) in narrative contexts has a specific referent: the Decalogue tablets
- N041 | Neutral | In 2 Cor 3:7, what is "done away" is grammatically the glory, not the law
- N049 | Continues | Deuteronomy 4:13-14 distinguishes covenant terms (Decalogue) from taught statutes
- N056 | Continues | The Hebrew verb katab ("write") in Jer 31:33 is the same verb used for God writing on the tablets
- N057 | Continues | The stone-medium in 2 Cor 3:3 identifies Decalogue content
Related Existing Study Conclusions (from PROMPT.md)¶
law-03 (Exodus 20 vs Later Laws) -- Five-Dimensional Distinction¶
The Exodus-Deuteronomy narrative distinguishes the Decalogue from all subsequent legislation across five dimensions: (1) delivery mode -- God spoke directly vs. Moses mediated; (2) authorship -- God's finger vs. Moses' hand; (3) repository -- inside the ark vs. beside the ark; (4) naming -- "testimony," "covenant, even ten commandments" vs. "book of the law"; (5) boundary -- "he added no more."
law-01 (God's Moral Law) -- Seven Unique Markers and Attributes¶
Seven markers: spoken by God's own voice, written by God's own finger, engraved on stone, placed inside the ark, completed with "he added no more," called "the covenant," called "the testimony." Law attributes mirror God's character. Scope extends before Sinai, beyond Israel, into the new covenant, and to the end of time.
law-04 (Ceremonial Laws) -- Contrast Table¶
Five categories of ceremonial law are consistently distinguished from the Decalogue. What was "nailed to his cross" uses dogma (G1378) -- never applied to the Decalogue.
law-11 (Written on Hearts) -- Stone-to-Heart Connection¶
Four convergent textual markers identify "my law" (torati) in Jer 31:33 as the Decalogue: (1) berith = Decalogue equation + new berith writes torati on hearts; (2) kathab verb connects stone-writing with heart-writing; (3) stone medium in 2 Cor 3:3 identifies Decalogue content; (4) Heb 10 removes ceremonial while moral law remains on hearts.