20. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother. He sits down to it, makes it his meat, studies it, resolves upon it,
becomes a master of defamation. His nearest friend is not safe; his dearest
relative escapes not. Thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. He ought
to love him best, but he has an ill word for him. The son of one’s own mother
was to the Oriental a very tender relation; but the wretched slanderer knows no
claim of kindred. Such monsters pollute our churches still, and are roots of
bitterness.
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