makes what is just unjust, and what is unjust just, for he as well as
the witness himself acts the part of a false witness. The same is true
of every man who makes what is straight to appear crooked, and what is
crooked to appear straight; likewise any ecclesiastical leader who
falsifies the truth of the Word and perverts its good. In a word, every
falsification of truth, spiritual, moral, and civil, which is done from
an evil heart, is false witness. (A.E., n. 1019.)

When a man abstains from false testimonies understood in a moral and
spiritual sense, and shuns and turns away from them as sins, a love of
truth and a love of justice flow in from the Lord through heaven. And
when, in consequence, the man loves truth and loves justice he loves the
Lord, for the Lord is truth itself and justice itself. And when a man
loves truth and justice it may be said that truth and justice love him,
because the Lord loves him; and as a consequence his utterances become
utterances of truth, and his works become works of justice. (A.E., n.
1020.)

IX: The Ninth and Tenth Commandments

The ninth commandment, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house," is
now to be treated of. There are two loves from which all lusts spring
and flow forth perpetually like streams from their fountains. These
loves are called love of the world and love of self. Lust is a love
continually desiring, for what a man loves, that he continually longs
for. But lusts belong to the love of evil, while desires and affections
belong to the love of good. Now because love of the world and love of
self are the fountains of all lusts, and all evil lusts are forbidden in
these last two commandments, it follows that the ninth commandment
forbids the lusts that flow from love of the world, and the tenth