Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 19:19

19 Honour thy Father, and thy Mother▪ Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self.

Mark addeth: Defraud not, Ch. 10.19. but Luke doth not put in, Ch. 18.20. Three things we may observe. 1. There are no Commandements mentioned, but those of the second Table. 2. Nor are they reckoned up in Order. 3. The tenth Commandement is expressed by: Thou shalt Love thy Neighbour as thy self: Which elsewhere our Saviour calls the second great Commandement, and makes Comprehensive of all the Commandements of the second Table. We must not from our Saviours order here, in the Enumeration of the Commandements, either conclude, that the Precepts of the second Table, are greater than those of the first, or that it is enough to keep them, in order to Eternal Life: Nor yet, that the fifth Commandement is lesser than the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, because it is put after them. But, 1. Our Saviour had reckoned up Commandements enough to convince this Man, that he could not by keeping the Commandements hope for Eternal Life. 2. He had reckoned those by some, of which he intended by and by to convince him, that he had not kept the Commandements. 3. And those of the Non-Observation, of which it was most easie to convince him. 4. The Pharisees lookt upon these, as the most Vulgar and easie Commandements. 5. Because Love to our Neighbour, is an excellent Evidence of our Love to God. As concerning the Order, in which they are Enumerated: It was not our Saviours business here to shew which was the greatest Commandement, that he hath elsewhere determined; calling, Thou shalt Love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, &c. the first and great Commandement, here he is not Sollicitous about the Order.

Marginal references: Chap. 15.4.; Lev. 19.18. Chap. 22.39. Rom. 13.9. Gal. 5.14. Jam. 2.8.