...to be found in the Talmud in a slightly different shape. For example, the saying, "He who looks on a woman to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart,"18 is found in the Talmud in the form, "He who deliberately looks on a woman is as though he...

...am sure Brother Peters has made a law against this very sin.' Master Cotton read from his Bible, ' Whoso looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.' Evidently the free-spoken soldier had a sense of humor which may well have exasperated beyond...

...opinion about it. Boerhaave, speaking of this very declaration of our Saviour, "Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart," and understanding it, as we do, to contain an injunction to lay the check upon the thoughts,...

...reply to which, we say that, as if, while Jesus teaches continence, and says, " Whosoever lookcth upon a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart," one were to behold a few of those who are deemed to be Christians living licentiously, he would...

...look is less than a touch, a caress or a kiss. But according to Matth. v. 28, Whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart. Much more therefore are lustful kisses and other like things mortal sins, Further, Cyprian says...

...which is conceived in heart and mind, of which the Lord says in the gospel : " Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart."* And these three kinds the blessed Apostle tells us must be stamped out in one and the same...

...the power of keeping them were not implanted 7, But, seeing there are found in the sacred Scriptures woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart ; "' and by any other commandment which He gives, declares that it lies with ourselves to keep...

...thee wherein lies what He had more than the scribes. Accordingly, He saith, " He that looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her: " that is, he who makes it his business to be curious about bright forms, and to hunt for elegant features,...

...says, " By his own heart is each man condemned;" * when, lastly, " he who looketh on a woman so as to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart,"9 — then both points are cleared fully up, that there is a directing faculty of the soul,...