On the Ninth Commandment

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

Ex. 20:16

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Subsection

Acting Doesn’t Break the 9th Commandment

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Order of Contents

Articles  4
Historical  1
Sarcasm  1


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Articles

1600’s

Ames, William – ch. 21, ‘Telling the Truth’  in The Marrow of Theology  tr. John D. Eusden  (1623; Baker, 1997), bk. 2, pp. 325-28

Ames (1576-1633) was an English, puritan, congregationalist, minister, philosopher and controversialist.  He spent much time in the Netherlands, and is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the reformed and the Arminians.  Voet highly commended Ames’s Marrow for learning theology.

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1700’s

à Brakel, Wilhelmus – ch. 54, ‘The Ninth Commandment’  in The Christian’s Reasonable Service, vol. 3  ed. Joel Beeke, trans. Bartel Elshout  Buy  (1700; RHB, 1992/1999), pp. 227-37

a Brakel (1635-1711) was a contemporary of Voet and Witsius and a major representative of the Dutch Further Reformation.

De Moor, Bernard – Continuous Commentary

ch. 3

section 20, ‘The Free Confession of True Religion’
section 20, ‘The Prudent Confession of True Religion’

ch. 4, section 45, ‘God’s Unfailing Truth & Faithfulness’


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Historical

On the Reformation

Article

Blacketer, Raymond A. – ‘No Escape by Deception: Calvin’s Exegesis of Lies & Liars in the Old Testament’  in Reformation & Renaissance Review  (2010), pp. 267-89


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On Sarcasm, etc.

References

Ames, William – Marrow of Theology, bk. 2, ch. 21, ‘On Telling the Truth,’ section 20, p. 326

Turretin, Francis –

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