Question 54: What are we especially taught by these words, 'before me,' in the first commandment?

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What are we especially taught by these words, 'before me,' in the first commandment?

These words, 'before me,' in the first commandment, teach us that God, who sees all things, takes notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other god.

Scripture Proofs

Ezekiel 8:12

The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

Psalm 44:20-21

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; Shall not God search this out?