One time at a Mathematics conference I had there were two rather short but large ladies giving a presentation. The guy I was sitting beside leaned over and said to me one word, "bookends". I don't think I remember anything else that was said as I couldn't help seeing the humour of his statement each time I looked at the presenters.
A few years ago I did a series on the Ten Commandments and I included a note about the first and last Commandment being wonderful bookends for the Ten Commandments. I am re-posting it here.
The first and the tenth commandment are wonderful bookends for the Ten Commandments. The first commandment tells us that there is only one God and we are to worship and adore Him. Anything else is a false God. Then the tenth commandment reminds clearly that we cannot look at the commandments as a list and say we have "kept all these from our youth, what more do you expect of us?" but it strikes right to the thoughts and intents of our heart. When we covet we replace God with the god self. We cannot have one God and then covet something of another person.
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