h its own commandments,
while it cannot change or abolish the commandments given directly by God
Himself.

Q. 1127. {311} Which are the Commandments that contain the whole law of
God?
A. The Commandments which contain the whole law of God are these two:
1st. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, with thy
whole soul, with thy whole strength, and with thy whole mind; 2. Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Q. 1128. {312} Why do these two Commandments of the love of God and of
our neighbor contain the whole law of God?
A. These two Commandments of the love of God and of our neighbor contain
the whole law of God because all the other Commandments are given either
to help us to keep these two, or to direct us how to shun what is
opposed to them.

Q. 1129. Explain further how the two commandments of the love of God and
of our neighbor contain the teaching of the whole ten commandments.
A. The two commandments of the love of God and of our neighbor contain
the teaching of the whole ten commandments because the first three of
the ten commandments refer to God and oblige us to worship Him alone,
respect His name and serve Him as He wills, and these things we will do
if we love Him; secondly, the last seven of the ten commandments refer
to our neighbor and forbid us to injure him in body, soul, goods or
reputation, and if we love him we will do him no injury in any of these,
but, on the contrary, aid him as far as we can.

Q. 1130. {313} Which are the Commandments of God?
A. The Commandments of God are these ten:

1. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before
me. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness
of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor
of those things that are in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt
not adore them, nor serve them.
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
3. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day.
4. Honor thy father and thy mother.
5. Thou shalt not kill.
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7. Thou shalt not steal.
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.

Q. 1131. What does the first commandment mean by a "graven thing" or
"the likeness of anything" in heaven, in the earth o