| Show Would mould Revise Reprise T Ten Corte Commandments I BISHIP P PAUL A U l JONES JON E S II GIVES APPROVAL I TO PLAN Head of Episcopal Church Churchin in Utah Would Simplify Service Revise the ten commandments to make them shorter and easier to remember Most certainly yes These are the words of the Right Reverend Reverend Paul Jones bishop of ot the tile i Episcopal diocese in Utah Bishop Dishop 1 Jones Jones' statement was in reply to the tile storm of protest that has bas been raised raised raised rais rais- ed following the churchs church's plan to revise revise re re- revise vise the ten commandments changIng changing changing chang chang- ing the wording to convey practically practical practical- ly the same moaning meaning in shorter lan lan- guage I Clergymen of other creeds and some sarno Episcopal l pastors oppose the I change The argument has been raised that to shorten the commandments commandments commandments command command- ments would be to hold out a sort of bait to churchgoers would boil boll down the s given by God to lo Moses thousands of or years ago and hence would be Would Help Church Bishop Jones holds to tho the opinion that tho the proposed revision would prove a boon lIoon to the lIle church that the commandments in their simplified I form would bo ho easier casier to remember and that brevity would give emphasis to them We are not endeavoring to tamper with the Bible Dible as as some somo people beHove believe be be- Hove lieve explained Bishop Jones bus bui only onty are attempting to simplify the service The words as written in ID inthe inthe the Bible will wUl remain the same We merely plan to eliminate the tho reasons I for the laws Tho The commandments state definitely definitely what we should and should Y dP N Y r not do and in most cases give the the reasons for these laws As revised I they would stale state only what we I should not do leaving the reasons I Ito to be taught in the usual study of the Bible Why t should hould anyone anone have havo the idea that the decalogue if abbreviated abbreviated abbreviated would still sUll not be the decalogue decalogue decalogue deca deca- logue Even now in Deuteronomy and in Exodus there is a difference in the wording of the commandments the version given ghen in Exodus being the shorter That version Is regarded regard regard- ed as correct yet it is the short form If Ie it would be lie wrong to ab ab- the decalogue now why I should it not be wrong to use the form as given In Exodus Argument Is Foolish The he whole argument is a very foolish one We who advocate tho the change c In the commandments believe that they will gain in emphasis if It shortened Brevity constitutes and Gods God's ten commandments would bemore be bemore bemore more potent If shortened as suggested suggest suggest- ed for the tho laws but leaving the laws Intact Aside from the fact that the decalogue decalogue deca deca- I I logue would be easier to tt remember Ii fi I |
