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(‘The ten words’), Ten Commandments. Term originated in Gk. Church, and was first used in English by Wycliffe. Ten Commandments are stated in Ezodus to have been written by God on two tables of stone, broken by Moses, and afterwards inscribed on two new tables according to revelation of Jehovah to Moses on Mount Sinai. Accounts in Lxodus and Deuteronomy disagree as to second tables. The division of the Commandments is uncertain; system adopted in Orthodox Wastern, Anglican, and most Calvin is tic Churches is known as Philonic, from work of Gk. father, Philo; while Rom. Church, followed by Luther ans, adopted views of St. Augustine. RAME (1778-1841), pioneer of systematic bot.; prof. of bot. at Montpellier, 1808-16; inspired the finest work of descriptive bot. yet produced—Prodromus System at is Natural is. league of 10 cities E. and W. of Jordan, Palestine; enumerated by Pliny—DamGerasa, Kanatha; only Scythopolis (the capital) lay west of Jordan. Population, mainly non-Jewish, enjoyed liberal civic rights and the privilege of coinage. BARON EMILE (1871), a Belgian diplomat, b. at Bru els, Belgium. He was educated in Belgium and later received the degree LL.D. from Princeton University in 1917, from Villa nov a in 1918 and from Brown University in 1921. He was appointed Amba ador Extrardinary and Plenipotentiary from BelaS to the United States in August,