[Sidenote: The Eight Commandment]
He who conceals or suppresses the truth in a court of law.
He who lies and deceives to another's hurt.
All hurtful flatterers, whisperers and double-dealers.
He who speaks evil of his neighbor's possessions, lie, words and works
and defames them.
He who gives place to slanderers, helps them on and does not resist
them.
He who does not use his tongue to defend his neighbor's good name.
He who does not rebuke the slanderer.
He who does not say all good of every man and keep silent about all
evil.
He who conceals or does not defend the truth.
_Against the Last Two_
[Sidenote: The Ninth and Tenth Commandments]
The last two commandments have no place in confession[8], but are set
as a goal to which we are to attain, and toward which, through
repentance and by the help and grace of God, we are daily to strive;
or wicked inclinations do not wholly die, until the flesh turns to
dust and is new created[9].
The "five senses"[10] are included in the Fifth and Sixth
Commandments; the "six works of mercy," in the Fifth and Seventh; of
the "seven deadly sins," pride is included in the First and Second,
unchastity in the Sixth, anger, and hatred in the Fifth, gluttony in
the Sixth, indolence in the Third, and indeed in all the commandments.
The "alien sins" are included in all the commandments, or it is
possible to sin against all the commandments by bidding, advising and
helping others to sin against them. The "crying sins" and the "mute
sins" are committed against the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Commandments,
etc.
In all these works we see nothing else than self-love, which seeks its
own, takes from God what is His, from men what is theirs, and out of
all it is and all it has and all it can do gives nothing either to God
or men. St. Augustine well says, "The beginning of all sin is the love
of one's own self."[11]
From all this it follows that the commandments command nothing but
love and forbid nothing but love; nothing but love fulfils the
commandments and nothing but love breaks them. Wherefore, St. Paul
says that love is the fulfilling of all commandments; just as evil
love is the transgression of all commandments.