Question 12: What does God require in the ninth and tenth commandments?
In the ninth, do not lie or deceive, but let us say the truth with love; the tenth, let us be happy, let us not envious anyone and do not feel what God has given them or has given us.
- However.
- If you follow the royal law.
- According to the scriptures: you will love your neighbor as yourself.
- You will do well.
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JOHN BRADFORD
You won’t say false testimony against your neighbor. Now, very merciful Lord, teach me in this commandment, about how I should use my language in relation to my neighbor, and behave on his behalf, forbidding me to bear false testimony; just as it forbids me to commit all kinds of slander, lies, hypocrisies and lies. Why? Because, because we are “members of the same body,” do you want us to “say the truth with love,” to cover the weaknesses of others, and, with our language, to defend the names of others, as we do?You would like others to tell us, defend yourself: therefore, in this commandment, how do you forbid me of any evil and dangerous, slanderous and misleading discourse, you also command me to use all the pious, honest, and true discourses?Oh, how big and good for me! If we consider the pain that comes from the lack of truth and the words with which many are deceived, we would easily see their wonderful advantage and take care of ourselves in this commandment.
Don’t you covet? Here, merciful Lord, you give me the last commandment of your law, which, having taught the external acts that I must avoid, so as not to offend or ruin my neighbor, how to kill, commit adultery, steal and give a false witness, now teach me a rule for my heart, ordering, from the abundance from which all our works and words come , don’t tell anything that’s my neighbor’s. With that, I know that if he has a more beautiful house than mine, I cannot wish it for myself; If you have a more beautiful wife than me, can’t I covet her?I can’t wish to take your ox, your donkey or your dog, no, not a more trivial possession, or do an injustice. As you did in the other commandments, forbidding me from doing evil and doing injustice against my neighbor, now you command me to be careful not to think about hurting him?Well said the Apostle as he taught, “Put all your worries on God, because he cares about you. “It’s true, yes, I find it true: just like you, do you want us to take care of each other?
ANY THABITI
Language is an uncontrolled evil. It burns the whole person, says James 3, so the ninth commandment aims, in part, to curb language; aims to contain the tongue with the truth, teaching us to suppress all lies and leave all lies. , accusing someone of lying is a very serious insult, so many people hesitate to use that term. I believe that this hesitation reveals the heart of man who avoids this commandment and his need for this commandment.
What does this mean when we consider the commandment?This probably indicates that, one way or another, we are already hiding the truth; we are already refraining from fully expressing what is good, what is just and true; that is what this ninth commandment convinces us of. It highlights our fallen condition regarding the use of language and the destruction of language.
Likes, the tenth commandment: “Tye will not covet. ” If you can imagine the heart with your hands, greed, it is as if the heart grabs things, desires them and appropriates objects that did not belong to you. The beautiful thing about this commandment, in fact, of all scripture, is that even if the commandment deals with something internal (this inner understanding of the heart), it also highlights the social implications of carrying it inside. covet what belongs to your neighbor, not your neighbor’s wife, not her cattle, or anything that belongs to her.
The tenth commandment leads us to a limit that protects us from the way greed crosses the lines. We are tempted to cross the line of desires, to aim for things that do not belong to us. We cross the edge of the property trying to capture the things that belong to us. other people (the neighbor’s ox, the neighbor’s wife). Thus, our greed causes social harm to our neighbor. In this, there is also another line that we cross. because he didn’t give us everything we wanted. Thus, the heart, in its fallen and sinful way, seeks things that do not belong to it and clings to things that actually belong elsewhere in the property, neighbor, or God.
Such commandments incite us, they call us to tell the truth, not only to speak the truth, but to speak the truth with love. He has legitimately given us for our pleasure, to be content with the way God distributed His blessing, how He governs His creation. They call us not to get out of satisfaction when we take things, because if we do, we will destroy society, culture. and our neighbor. This is true even when the act of taking what is not ours is just a grip on the heart.
Lord of all truth, help us to reflect your goodness in words and deeds, you know everything. Nothing is hidden from you. You give us good gifts and deny all good to your children; May your truth be on our lips and your joy in our hearts! Amen.
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