Sixth Commandment

Christ teaches that the sixth commandment is improperly restricted in the Pharasaic school to actual slaughter because this alone was capitally punished among men, while it is extended also in the court of God (in which we must render account not only of deeds, but also of words and thoughts) to those things which otherwise are removed from the punishments usually inflicted by men.

 

Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, ed. James T. Dennison Jr., trans. George Musgrave Giger, vol. 2 (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1992-1997), 23.