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More Than Just Perjury
Commentators unanimously stress that this command extends far beyond formal legal testimony. It forbids all forms of damaging another's reputation, including private slander, backbiting, spreading false reports, and even subtle insinuations. As one scholar notes, it covers not only what is said in court but also what is stirred up 'in private houses and secret corners.'
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Exodus
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Albert Barnes
On Exodus 20:1–17
18th Century
Theologian
The Hebrew name which is rendered in our King James Version as the Ten Commandments occurs in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; and Deuter…
Charles Ellicott
On Exodus 20:16
19th Century
Bishop
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. —Our fourth duty to our neighbor is not to injure his character. …
Charles Spurgeon
On Exodus 20:15–17
19th Century
Preacher
It was the tenth commandment that convicted the apostle Paul, for he says, I had not known sin except the law had said "Thou shalt not covet."<…
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John Calvin
On Exodus 20:16
16th Century
Theologian
God here makes a provision for every person’s character and good name, lest anyone should be undeservedly weighed down by slander and false accusat…
John Gill
On Exodus 20:16
17th Century
Pastor
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour .
Neither publicly in a court of judicature, by laying thing…
Matthew Henry
On Exodus 20:12–17
17th Century
Minister
The laws of the Second Table, that is, the last six of the Ten Commandments, state our duty to ourselves and to one another, and explain the great …