Adultery

So Far as Any One Shuns All Kinds of Adultery as Sins,

So Far He Loves Chastity

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In the sixth commandment of the Decalogue,

by committing adultery in the natural sense

is meant not only to commit whoredom,

but also to commit obscene acts,

to speak lascivious words, and to think filthy thoughts.

But in the spiritual sense,

by committing adultery is meant to adulterate

the goods of the Word and to falsify its truths;

while in the supreme sense,

by committing adultery is meant

to deny the Lord's Divinity and to profane the Word.

These are all the kinds of adultery.

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So far as any one shuns adultery,

so far he loves marriage, or, what is the same,

so far as any one shuns the lasciviousness of adultery,

so far he loves the chastity of marriage.

This is because the lasciviousness of adultery

and the chastity of marriage are two opposites;

and therefore so far as a person is not in the one,

so far he is in the other.