He who abstains from profaning the name of God, that is, the holiness of
the Word, by contempt, rejection, or any blasphemy, has religion; and
such as his abstinence is such is his religion. For no one has religion
except from revelation, and with us revelation is the Word. Abstinence
from profaning the holiness of the Word must be from the heart, and not
merely from the mouth. Those who abstain from the heart live from
religion; but those who abstain merely from the mouth do not live from
religion, for they abstain either for the sake of self or for the sake
of the world, in that the Word can be made to serve them as a means of
acquiring honor and gain; or they abstain from some fear. But of these
many are hypocrites who have no religion. (A.E., n. 963.)

III. The Third Commandment

The third commandment is, to keep the Sabbath holy.

The third and fourth commandments of the Decalogue contain things that
must be done, namely, that the Sabbath must be kept holy, and that
parents must be honored. The other commandments contain things that are
not to be done, namely, that other gods must not be worshipped; that the
name of God must not be profaned; that one must not steal, must not
commit adultery, must not bear false witness, must not covet the goods
of others. These two commandments are commandments to be done because
the sanctification of the rest of the commandments depends upon these,
for the "Sabbath" signifies the union in the Lord of the Divine itself
and the Divine Human, also His conjunction with heaven and the church,
and thus the marriage of good and truth in the man who is being
regenerated. This being the signification of the Sabbath, it was the
chief representative of all things of worship in the Israelitish Church,
as is evident in Jeremiah (xvii. 20-27), and elsewhere. It was the