{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/103/1030646.htm","path":"chr/ecf/103/1030646.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/103/1030646.htm","text":"2. Setting aside, therefore, jokes, which have never been accounted lies, seeing they bear with them in the tone of voice, and in the very mood of the joker a most evident indication that he means no deceit, although the thing he utters be not true: touching which kind of discourse, whether it be meet to be used by perfect minds, is another question which we have not at this time taken in hand to clear; but setting jokes apart, the first point to be attended to, is, that a person should not be thought to lie, who lieth not.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III: Moral Treatises...","type":"page"}