READING.--The False Witnesses against Stephen, Acts 6:8-15.
ILLUSTRATIONS.--_False Witness_: Against Christ, Matt. 26:60; against
Naboth, I Kings 21:10; against Paul, Acts 25:7. _Slander_: Absalom
against David, II Sam. 15:1 seq.; _Lying_: Jacob, Gen. 27:19; Jacob's
Sons, Gen. 37:32. _Betrayal_: Judas. _Speaking well_: Jonathan, I Sam.
19:4.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE NINTH AND TENTH COMMANDMENTS.
A RIGHT HEART.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.
_What is meant by this Commandment?_
We should so fear and love God as not to desire by craftiness to gain
possession of our neighbor's inheritance or home, or to obtain it under
the pretext of a legal right; but be ready to assist and serve him in
the preservation of his own.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his
maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy
neighbor's.
_What is meant by this Commandment?_
We should so fear and love God as not to alienate our neighbor's wife
from him, entice away his servants, nor let loose his cattle, but use
our endeavors that they may remain and discharge their duty to him.
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