“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. The lustful look that has already committed adultery in the heart is the interior parallel to the angry word that has already committed relational murder. The already communicates that the heart precedes the act and is not innocent by virtue of not having acted. Job 31:1 records Job's covenant with his eyes not to look lustfully — the same interior discipline Jesus requires. The in his heart locates the violation where Jesus locates all violation: in the interior life that external observance cannot regulate. The commandment against adultery, properly understood, is a commandment about desire — not merely a prohibition of certain acts.
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