The Ten Commandments – You Shall Not Commit Adultery
Speaker Notes
Deuteronomy 5:18
18 “You shall not commit adultery.
Matthew 5:27-30
Adultery
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
Proverbs 5, 6 and 7
Alan Paton - Too Late the Phalarope (1953)
And how long he stayed there he could not remember, but at last he rose and came out of the vacant ground. And his body and his clothes stank with the kakiebos [weeds], which stinking was a symbol of his corruption, so that in his going he feared that the stench of it would go through the town, and bring men and women from every house, to find him and know what he had done. …
Mark is the Rector of Church of the Cross, Boston