Ave Maria series
The Eighth Commandment: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
What does the Eighth Commandment require of us?
The Eighth Commandment teaches us not to lie. Lying means consciously and intentionally speaking or acting against the truth. Someone who lies deceived himself and misleads others who have a right to know the truth of a matter. [2464, 2467-2468, 2483, 2485-2486]
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“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”
“Misusing words means despising people”. --Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961, Swedish U.N. General Secretary, mystic)
[2464, 2467-2468, 2483, 2485-2486]
THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. (Exodus 20:16; compare Deuteronomy 5:20.)253 It was said to the men of old, "You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn."(Matthew 5:33.)254 –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition
2464 The eighth commandment forbids misrepresenting the truth in our relations with others. This moral prescription flows from the vocation of the holy people to bear witness to their God who is the truth and wills the truth. Offenses against the truth express by word or deed a refusal to commit oneself to moral uprightness: they are fundamental infidelities to God and, in this sense, they undermine the foundations of the covenant. --CCC
LIVING IN THE TRUTH
2467 Man tends by nature toward the truth. He is obliged to honor and bear witness to it: "It is in accordance with their dignity that all men, because they are persons . . . are both impelled by their nature and bound by a moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth. They are also bound to adhere to the truth once they come to know it and direct their whole lives in accordance with the demands of truth." (Dignitatis Humanae 2 § 2.)262–CCC
2468 Truth as uprightness in human action and speech is called truthfulness, sincerity, or candor. Truth or truthfulness is the virtue which consists in showing oneself true in deeds and truthful in words, and in guarding against duplicity, dissimulation, and hypocrisy. –CCC
2483 Lying is the most direct offense against the truth. To lie is to speak or act against the truth in order to lead someone into error. By injuring man's relation to truth and to his neighbor, a lie offends against the fundamental relation of man and of his word to the Lord. –CCC
2485 By its very nature, lying is to be condemned. It is a profanation of speech, whereas the purpose of speech is to communicate known truth to others. The deliberate intention of leading a neighbor into error by saying things contrary to the truth constitutes a failure in justice and charity. The culpability is greater when the intention of deceiving entails the risk of deadly consequences for those who are led astray. –CCC
2486 Since it violates the virtue of truthfulness, a lie does real violence to another. It affects his ability to know, which is a condition of every judgment and decision. It contains the seed of discord and all consequent evils. Lying is destructive of society; it undermines trust among men and tears apart the fabric of social relationships. –CCC
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