taught in the second table. We are not to hate anybody. What is this, then, about hating father, mother, wife, children, and so on? This is only a strong way of putting it that nothing may stand between us and God, nothing may claim our love before and greater than love to Him. God is nearer to us, more to us, and should be dearer than any earthly kin. Only as we understand and fulfil our relationship to God do these other relationships, which He Himself has established, appear in their true light.