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Often appears with: crime and punishment · contracts, oaths, and obligation · conspiracy and assassination · bribery · truth and false witness · thessalian promises · the nature and attributes of God · terentia · swearing by god vs false gods · superstition vs irreligion · slavery and bondage · second precept of decalogue
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“For this reason the precept forbidding superstition is placed before the second precept, which forbids perjury that pertains to irreligion.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) · insight
“Impossible is it,--impossible, Athenians,--to acquire a solid power by injustice and perjury and falsehood.” Demosthenes, The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes · insight
“Such is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And wears his blushing honors thick upon him.” Demosthenes, The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes · observation
“It consists in calling upon God as a witness, to confirm the truth of any declaration that we make.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · observation
Cicero supports prosecutions with testimony against Clodius while Terentia’s motives and personal grudges are implicated, after which Clodius’s faction uses bribery and power to pursue Cicero’s downfall.
and having been told by someone that Vatinius was dead, on hearing presently after that he was alive, "May the rascal perish," said he, "for his news not being true." Upon Caesar's bringing forward a law for the division of the lands in Campania amongst the soldiers, many in the senate opposed it; amongst the rest, Lucius Gellius, one of the oldest men in the house, said it should never pass whilst he lived. "Let us…
He proposes to detail Philip’s perjury and deception step-by-step—Amphipolis, Potidaea, and promises to Thessalians—arguing that such unjust tactics cannot yield lasting power.
are open to me, which it concerns you all to know, and which must, on a due examination, Athenians, reflect great disgrace on Philip. To these will I address myself. To call him perjured and treacherous, without showing what he has done, might justly be termed idle abuse. But to go through all his actions and convict him in detail, will take, as it happens, but a short time, and is expedient, I think, for two reason…
Thomas defends the second precept’s order by saying the law first forbids superstition, which blocks knowing God rightly, and then forbids irreligious perjury, which blocks honoring God after acknowledgment.
Whether the Second Precept of the Decalogue Is Fittingly Expressed? Objection 1: It seems that the second precept of the decalogue is unfittingly expressed. For this precept, "Thou shalt not take the name of thy God in vain" is thus explained by a gloss on Ex. 20:7: "Thou shalt not deem the Son of God to be a creature," so that it forbids an error against faith. Again, a gloss on the words of Deut. 5:11, "Thou shalt…
Apuleius challenges Crassus’s absence, claiming he was seen publicly in Sabrata eating drunkenly, and argues Aemilianus is relying on perjured testimony bought for 3,000 sesterces.
slave. It is much more likely that he himself fabricated this mendacious nonsense about feathers and soot, being unable even in his evidence to divorce himself further from his kitchen. 59. And why did you read out this evidence from a written deposition? Where in the world is Crassus? Has he returned to Alexandria out of disgust at the state of his house? Is he washing his walls? or, as is more likely, is the glutt…
He explains that he knew the bribery-and-perjury plot already, says Crassus’s evidence was contracted at Rufinus’s house, and then introduces a new charge: a magic seal made for Pudentilla’s letters.
[Footnote 19: *ructus popinam* (Pricaeus).] 60. We all knew of this before it actually took place. I might have prevented the transaction by denouncing it, but I knew that so foolish a lie would be prejudicial to Aemilianus, who wasted his money to secure it, rather than to myself, who treated it with the contempt it deserved. I wished not only that Aemilianus should lose his money, but that Crassus should have his …
Calvin defines an oath as calling on God to witness truth, explains that rightly sworn oaths are divine worship, and treats perjury as profaning God’s truth.
we conclude, that in this command he vindicates his just claims, and guards the sanctity of his name, but does not teach the duties which men owe to each other. XXIII. In the first place, we have to explain what an oath is. It consists in calling upon God as a witness, to confirm the truth of any declaration that we make. For execrations, which contain manifest reproaches against God, are not worthy to be mentioned …
Calvin explains “Thou shalt not bear false witness” as preserving truth without disguise, forbidding calumny, false accusations, detraction, and perjury, and requiring truth-telling for others’ reputation and property.
The Ninth Commandment. *Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.* XLVII. The end of this precept is, that because God, who is truth itself, execrates a lie, we ought to preserve the truth without the least disguise. The sum of it therefore is, that we neither violate the character of any man, either by calumnies or by false accusations, nor distress him in his property by falsehood, nor injure him b…