Exodus 20:2

The Lord thy God.

The possessive word "thy" points the covenant between God and his people. When taken in the full depth of its meaning it involves that God has chosen them to be his people. He is the Redeemer. He has brought his people out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. This, in the manner of Scripture and of providence, is the earnest and guarantee of their deliverance from all other and greater kinds of bondage.

Which have brought thee out.

Why, on this occasion, was not the Lord rather proclaimed as "creator of heaven and earth?" The true answer evidently is, that the ten commandments were at this time addressed by Jehovah not merely to human creatures, but to the people whom he had redeemed, to those who had been in bondage, but were now free men (Exodus 6:6-7; Exodus 18:9).-- Canon Cook. We have not, indeed, been delivered from the literal bondage of Egypt, but the spirit of the declaration reaches to us, if Christians, as redeemed by Christ from. bondage infinitely worse, and incorporated by faith into the true Israel of God, the spiritual seed of Abraham, and made heirs of all the blessings of the covenant of grace. Consequently, as the Lord is our God, we are bound by the same inviolable bonds of love and service as rested upon the seed of Israel according to the flesh.-- Bush.