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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:15

Thou shalt not steal - All rapine and theft are forbidden by this precept; as well national and commercial wrongs as petty larceny, highway robberies, and private stealing: even the taking advantage of a seller's or buyer's ignorance, to give the one less and make the other pay more for a commodity than its worth, is a breach of this sacred law. All withholding of rights and doing of wrongs are against the spirit of it. But the word is principally applicable to clandestine stealing, though... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:16

Thou shalt not bear false witness, etc. - Not only false oaths, to deprive a man of his life or of his right, are here prohibited, but all whispering, tale-bearing, slander, and calumny; in a word, whatever is deposed as a truth, which is false in fact, and tends to injure another in his goods, person, or character, is against the spirit and letter of this law. Suppressing the truth when known, by which a person may be defrauded of his property or his good name, or lie under injuries or... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:17

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house - wife, etc. - Covet signifies to desire or long after, in order to enjoy as a property the person or thing coveted. He breaks this command who by any means endeavors to deprive a man of his house or farm by taking them over his head, as it is expressed in some countries; who lusts after his neighbor's wife, and endeavors to ingratiate himself into her affections, and to lessen her husband in her esteem; and who endeavors to possess himself of the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:12

Verse 12 I am not ignorant that the Tables of the Law are usually divided in a different manner; (1) for those, who make only one of the first two Commandments, are obliged finally to mangle the last. Thus the prohibition of God to covet either our neighbor’s wife or his house, is foolishly separated into two parts, whereas it is quite clear that only one thing is treated of, as we gather from the words of Paul, who quotes them as a single Commandment. (Romans 7:7.) There is, however, no need... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:13

Verse 13 The sum of this Commandment is, that we should not unjustly do violence to any one. In order, however, that God may the better restrain us from all injury of others, He propounds one particular form of it, from which men’s natural sense is abhorrent; for we all detest murder, so as to recoil from those whose hands are polluted with blood, as if they carried contagion with them. Undoubtedly God would have the remains of His image, which still shine forth in men, to continue in some... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:14

Verse 14 Although one kind of impurity is alone referred to, it is sufficiently plain, from the principle laid down, that believers are generally exhorted to chastity; for, if the Law be a perfect rule of holy living, it would be more than absurd to give a license for fornication, adultery alone being excepted. Furthermore, it is incontrovertible that God will by no means approve or excuse before this tribunal, what the common sense of mankind declares to be obscene; for, although lewdness has... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:15

Verse 15 Since charity is the end of the Law, we must seek the definition of theft from thence. This, then, is the rule of charity, that every one’s rights should be safely preserved, and that none should do to another what he would not have done to himself. It follows, therefore, that not only are those thieves who secretly steal the property of others, but those also who seek for gain from the loss of others, accumulate wealth by unlawful practices, and are more devoted to their private... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:16

Verse 16 G od here makes a provision for every man’s character and good name, lest any should be undeservedly weighed down by calumnies and false accusations. The same synecdoche exists here, which I have pointed out in the previous Commandments, for God comprises many things under a single head. With reference to the words, inasmuch as עד, gned, properly means a witness, it may be literally translated, “Thou shalt not answer a false witness against thy neighbor,” but then the particle as must... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:17

Verse 17 Exodus 20:17.Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife. There is no question but that this Commandment extends also to those that have preceded it. God had already sufficiently forbidden us to set our hearts on the property of others, to attempt the seduction of their wives, or to seek for gain at another’s loss and inconvenience. Now whilst He enumerates oxen and asses, and all other things as well as their wives and servants, it is very clear that His precept is directed to the same... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:17

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:15

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:16

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 20:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 20:1-17

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