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իսկ ես ձեզ ասում եմ. ամէն մարդ, որ կնոջ նայում է նրան ցանկանալու համար, արդէն շնացաւ նրա հետ իր սրտում:
Մեթյու 5:28
True Christian Religion # 313
313. THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
You are not to commit adultery.
In the natural sense, this commandment forbids not only committing adultery, but also having obscene desires and realising them, and so indulging in lascivious thoughts and talk. It is clear from these words of the Lord that even lusting is committing adultery:
You have heard that it was said by the men of old, You are not to commit adultery. But I say to you, that if anyone looks at another man's wife so as to lust after her, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart, Matthew 5:27-28.
The reason is that when lust is in the will, it becomes like a deed; for the enticement only enters the understanding, but the intention enters the will, and a lustful intention is a deed. More on this subject can be found in my book CONJUGIAL LOVE AND SCORTATORY 1 LOVE, published at Amsterdam in 1768. This contains sections on the opposition of [scortatory and] conjugial love (Conjugial Love 423-443); fornication (444-460); types degrees of adultery (478-499); the lust for deflowering (501-505); the lust for variety (506-510); the lust for rape (511-512); the lust for seducing the innocent (513-514); the imputation of either love, both scortatory and conjugial (523-531). All these ideas are meant by this commandment in the natural sense.
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1. A term to describe love which is the opposite of marriage love.
Conjugial Love # 506
506. THE LUST FOR VARIETY
By the lust for variety that we take up here, we do not mean the lust to fornicate which we considered in its own chapter. 1 Even though the latter is usually promiscuous and indiscriminate, still it does not lead to a lust for variety except when it becomes excessive and the fornicator begins to take account of the number and to lustfully boast of it. Attention to this introduces the lust for variety. But what its character is in its progress cannot be clearly perceived unless it is presented in some order, which we will do as follows:
1. By a lust for variety we mean a lust to fornicate that has become utterly dissolute.
2. This lust involves a love for the opposite sex and at the same time a loathing for it.
3. This lust totally annihilates any conjugial love in it.
4. The lot of these people after death is a miserable one, since the inmost element of life is missing in them.
Explanation of these statements now follows.
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