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The depraved taste hedges itself
behind conscience, and declares that it is always right to speak the
truth, and hence God cannot have meant that speaking the truth would
be slander; but that in condemning evil speaking and slander, as
works of the flesh and the devil, He must have meant the speaking of
that which is false, untrue. This is a great mistake; a slander is
equally a slander, whether it be true or whether it be false, and is
so regarded, not only in the law of God but also in the laws of
civilized men. A slander is anything which is uttered with the
intention of injury to another, whether true or false, and the laws
of men agree with the law of God, that such injury to another is
wrong. |
