“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:”
You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery. The second antithesis addresses the seventh commandment (Exodus 20:14). The commandment against adultery had been interpreted, like the commandment against murder, as primarily addressing the external act. Jesus will again move from the act to its interior origin, from the visible violation to the invisible desire that produces it. The commandment is not being set aside — it is being fulfilled in the deeper sense of being applied to the full range of human experience, interior as well as exterior.
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