"You will not want for yourself your neighbor’s house; you will not want for yourself your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor’s." Exodus 20:17

With this Commandment we come to the end of the "Words" that God spoke to his people at Sinai. The warning that he gave that we should not long to have for ourselves that which belongs to our neighbors serves to cap off, and bring to a conclusion, this handful of directions for living. We have come to the end of the list but, if you check the chapter numbers, you will see that there are only nine of them, including this one, dealing with the Commandments. Shouldn’t there be one more in the offing?

The longer that I study these guides for life the more I am convinced that…