When I discussed the third Commandment, "Remember the Sabbath," I said that it was perhaps the most ignored and least thought about "Word" in the lot. In sharp contrast to it this guide for living, along with the one that follows it, is among the most thought about, discussed, and argued over of our time. For killing is going on around us continually, or so it seems. Just look at the newspapers, the television screen, or listen to the radio any day, and there killing is front and center.

Who isn’t aware of the fact that murder in the streets is now commonplace? You can’t walk down the sidewalk of even small towns anymore and be certain that you will get to your destination alive. Riots in our slums these past few years have turned our cities into battlefields where thousands have died by …