Bump for later
If you haven’t been there (fisheaters.com), go and poke around a bit. The entire Fish Eaters web site is a monumental work, and a resource for traditional Catholic practice and belief.
Today on their forum, this question was posted:
“There’s a heretic that I work with who keeps sending me different links which argue that the catholic church intentionally changed the 2nd commandment so that we can have statues and “graven images” as this guy Is saying. I am trying to do some apologetics for this, but need help. I don’t deny my knowledge of scripture and the faith is a work in progress.”
The inquirer was directed to the section on the enumeration of the Ten Words, found here, which is a tiny part of the compilation:
http://www.fisheaters.com/10commandments.html
This is the best outline and examination I’ve found (as such are not specifically addressed in the New Testament) from the Old Testament origins.