Recently, because of some work I hope to unveil soon, I’ve been thinking a good bit about covetousness. One idea I’ve been flirting with concerns the way Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, connects lust to adultery and hatred to murder. Perhaps Jesus is reading the tenth commandment, the prohibition against covetousness, back into the seventh and sixth,…
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