Lord’s Day 40Questions 106–107
Reformed Church in America English, 1879
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But this command seems only to speak of murder?
In forbidding murder, God teaches us, that he abhors the causes thereof: such as envy, hatred, anger, and desire of revenge; and that he accounts all these as murder (1 John 3;15).
But is it enough that we do not kill any man in the manner mentioned above?
No: for when God forbids envy, hatred and anger, he commands us to love our neighbour as ourselves (Matt. 7;12); to show patience, peace, meekness, mercy, and all kindness towards him, and to prevent his hurt as much as in us lies (Heb. 12;14): and that we do good even unto our enemies (Matt. 5;44, 45).