{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/103/1030650.htm","path":"chr/ecf/103/1030650.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/103/1030650.htm","text":"6. On the other hand, those who say that we must never lie, plead much more strongly, using first the Divine authority, because in the very Decalogue it is written \u201cThou shall not bear false witness;\u201d 2306 under which general term it comprises all lying: for whoso utters any thing bears witness to his own mind. But lest any should contend that not every lie is to be called false witness, what will he say to that which is written, \u201cThe mouth that lieth slayeth the soul:\u201d 2307 and lest any should suppose that this may be understood with the exception of some liars, let him read in another place, \u201cThou wilt destroy all that speak leasing.\u201d 2308 Whence with His own lips the Lord saith, \u201cLet your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.\u201d 2309 Hence the Apostle also in giving precept for the putting off of the old man, under which name all sins are understood, says straightway, \u201cWherefore putting away lying, speak ye truth.\u201d 2310\nWisdom 1.11. Os quod mentitur. \u201cThe mouth that belieth,\u201d E.V., \u03c3\u03c4\u03cc\u03bc\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1\u03c8\u03b5\u03c5\u03b4\u03cc\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd\n460:2308 460:2309\nMatt. 5.37. [See R.V.]\n460:2310","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III: Moral Treatises...","type":"page"}