If I wanted to extract and highlight all the commands of the Bible what Logos software would I use?
There are a couple of ways you could get at this. Since commands are generally imperative verbs, you could do a morph search for these. If you aren't familiar with this, try this wiki page -- http://wiki.logos.com/Morphological_Search
Once you've done the search, you can turn it into a visual filter -- http://wiki.logos.com/Visual_Filter
Note: I am in no way what I would call highly proficient in Logos and there are surely higher qualified people here to give you an answer. This may or may not be the best way to do this.
A way that I learned to do it using a morph search in an English based Bible is as follows:
1. Open a Bible that has morphology (in this case I opened the ESV)
2. Click on the 'File Menu' and open a Visual Filter.
3. Select Morph
4. Follow the settings for your visual filter that I used in the picture below.
4. In the box that says 'Find' type the @ symbol.
5. You will then get a drop down menu.
6. Select 'Verb' and then 'Imperative' and press your enter key (some garbled code will then show in your 'Find' box, this is normal).
7. Finally, select the type of formatting that you want. I selected orange in this case.
To go to the next or previous results simply select annotation Filter Highlight and hit the up or down arrows.
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In the New Testament, concur with imperative mood being used for a number of commands, both positive and negative. Wiki Extended Tips for Visual Filters includes => Examples of visual filters with screen shots of many Logos Greek Morphology visual filters plus has a link to forum thread => Visual Filter for what to do and not do Subsequently have updated my Greek Verbal mood visual filter with negation highlighting:
John 15:17 has an important command where the imperative verbal mood was not used. One option is right click on "command", then click Louw-Nida so can open Louw-Nida lexicon. Also can search this resource:
In the Louw-Nida lexicon, noticed 33.329 is an entry in Communication => F' Command, Order (33.323-33.332) so searched for:
<LN 33.323-332>
to find more commands. A number of <LN 33.323-332> commands do not use imperative verbal mood.
For the Old Testament, have a visual filter to highlight many sayings of God, including "God commanded":
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