While more recent papal encyclicals offer interpretations of Church teaching on individual commandments, throughout history official Church teachings on the Commandments are based on their mentions in the Old and New Testaments and the writings of the early Church Fathers Origen, Irenaeus and Augustine.
Iako novije papinske enciklike nude tumačenja crkvenog nauka o pojedinim zapovijedima, kroz povijest službena crkvena učenja o zapovijedima temelje se na njihovom spominjanju u Starom i Novom zavjetu i spisima ranih crkvenih otaca Origena, Ireneja i Augustina.