but he did so. He is the cause of profanation of the Sabbath, the
consecration of which God commands in the fourth
commandment, because in his illegal relation he generates
descendants who will perform priestly duties in the Temple on the
Sabbath, which, being bastards, they have no right to do. The fifth
commandment will be broken by the children of the adulterer, who
will honor as a father a strange man, and will not even know their
true father. He breaks the sixth commandment: "Thou shalt not
kill," if he is surprised by the rightful husband, for every time a
man goes to a strange woman, he does so with the consciousness
that this may lead to his death or the death of his neighbor. The
trespassing of the seventh commandment: "Thou shalt not commit
adultery," is the direct outcome of a forbidden coveting. The
eighth commandment: "Thou shalt not steal," is broken by the
adulterer, for he steals another man's fountain of happiness. The
ninth commandment" "Thou shalt not bear false witness," is
broken by the adulterous woman, who pretends that the fruit of her
criminal relations is the child of her husband. In this way, the
breaking of the tenth commandment has not only led to all the
other sins, but has also the evil effect that the deceived husband
leaves his whole property to one who is not his son, so that the
adulterer robs him of his possessions as well as of his wife. [235]

THE UNITY OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

The Ten Commandments are so closely interwoven, that the
breaking of one leads to the breaking of another. But there is a
particularly strong bond of union between the first five
commandments, which are written on one table, and the last five,
which were on the other table. The first commandment: "I am the