do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother:  and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”—­SCOTT, ALGER, AND OTHERS:  Matt., xix, 17, 18, 19.  “The following sentences exemplify the possessive pronouns:—­’My lesson is finished; Thy books are defaced; He loves his studies; She performs her duty; We own our faults; Your situation is distressing; I admire their virtues.’”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 55.  What mode of pointing is best adapted to examples like these, is made a very difficult question by the great diversity of practice in such cases.  The semicolon, with guillemets, or the semicolon and a dash, with the quotation marks, may sometimes be sufficient; but I see no good reason why the period should not in general be preferred to the comma, the semicolon, or the colon, where full and distinct sentences are thus recited.  The foregoing passage of Scripture I have examined in five different languages, ten different translations, and seventeen different editions which happened to be at hand.  In these it is found pointed in twelve different ways.  In Leusden’s, Griesbach’s, and Aitton’s Greek, it has nine colons; in Leusden’s Latin from Montanus, eight; in the common French version, six; in the old Dutch, five; in our Bibles, usually one, but not always.  In some books, these commandments are mostly or wholly divided by periods; in others, by colons; in others, by semicolons; in others, as above, by commas.  The first four are negative, or prohibitory; the other two, positive, or mandatory.  Hence some make a greater pause after the fourth, than elsewhere between any two.  This greater pause is variously marked by the semicolon, the colon, or the period; and the others, at the same time, as variously, by the comma, the semicolon, or the colon.  Dr. Campbell, in his Four Gospels, renders and points the latter part of this passage thus:  “Jesus answered, ’Thou shalt not commit murder.  Thou shalt not commit adultery.  Thou shalt not steal.  Thou shalt not give false testimony.  Honour thy father and mother; and love thy neighbour as thyself.”  But the corresponding passage in Luke, xviii 20, he exhibits thus:  “Thou knowest the commandments.  Do not commit adultery; do not commit murder; do not steal; do not give false testimony; honour thy father and thy mother.”  This is here given as present advice, referring to the commandments, but not actually quoting them; and, in this view of the matter, semicolons, not followed by capitals may be right.  See the common reading under Rule XIV for Capitals, on page 166.