God is a God of Truth (2)

We have seen that the ninth commandment, thought expressed negatively, requires positively that we love the truth, also that this love for the truth is nothing less than the love of God Himself, Who is a God of truth and without iniquity (Deut. 32:4). Every form of deceit and falsehood is, therefore, an act of violence against God and His glory. The sin explicitly forbidden in the ninth commandment is the sin of "bearing false witness," what we today would call perjury. This is, however, only...