第八节 诫命六：不可奸淫
313# 第六条诫命：“不可奸淫。”在字义中，此诫不但意谓不可行奸淫，亦意谓不可愿行并实施淫秽之事，并由此思想、谈论淫荡之事。仅仅贪恋即为奸淫，可由主以下的话明见：“你们听见有话说：‘不可奸淫。’只是我告诉你们，凡看见妇女就动淫念的，这人心里已经与她犯奸淫了。”（太5:27，28）
其因在于：贪恋一在意志中，便如同已成事实；盖进入理智者只是诱惑，进入意志者乃是意图，而贪恋之意图即为事实。然关于此等事，可详见婚姻之爱与淫乱之爱一书（1768年刊于阿姆斯特丹），其中论及：淫乱之爱与婚姻之爱之对立（423—433节）；论私通（444—460节）；论通奸及其种类与等级（478—499节）；论破贞之欲（501—505节）；论求异之欲（506—510节）；论强暴之欲（511、512节）；论诱惑纯洁者之欲（513、514节）；论淫乱之爱与婚姻之爱二者的归算（523—531节）。凡此种种，皆为此诫在自然义中所意谓者。
313# 在属世意义上，这条诫命不仅涵盖了通奸，还涵盖了意愿和行为的淫秽，以及随之而来的思维和言语的不洁或放荡。仅仅动淫念，或贪恋通奸就是通奸了，这一点从主的话明显看出来：
你们听见古人有话说，不可通奸。只是我告诉你们，凡看见别人的妻子就对她动淫念的，心里已经与她通奸了。（马太福音5:27，28）
其原因在于，当淫欲进入意愿时，它可以说就变成了行为，或说获得了行为的性质；因为诱惑只进入理解力，而意图进入意愿；淫欲的意图就是行为。但关于这个主题，详情可参看1768年于阿姆斯特丹出版的《婚姻之爱》（或《婚姻之爱和淫乱之爱》）；那里论述了以下主题：婚姻之爱和淫乱之爱的对立（CL 423-443节）；私通（CL 444-460节）；通奸，以及通奸的不同种类和级别（CL 478-499节）；奸污处女或破处的淫欲（CL 501-505节）；沉溺于多样性的淫欲（CL 506-510节）；侵犯或强奸的淫欲（CL 511，512节）；诱惑纯真的淫欲（CL 513，514节）；淫乱之爱和婚姻之爱的归算（CL 523-531节）。这条诫命在属世意义上就涵盖了这一切。
313. The Sixth Commandment
You Are Not to Commit Adultery
In its earthly meaning, this commandment covers not only committing adultery but also wanting to do and doing things that are obscene, and also having wanton thoughts and expressing them. As the Lord's words make clear, craving to commit adultery is committing adultery:
You have heard that it was said by the ancients, "You are not to commit adultery. " But I say to you that if a man looks at someone else's wife in such a way that he craves her, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Matthew 5:27-28)
The reason is that craving becomes a virtual deed when it is in the will. An attraction enters only our intellect, but an intention enters our will; and an intention based on a craving is a deed.
On these topics, see many things in the work Marriage Love and Promiscuous Love, published in Amsterdam, 1768. There are treatments there on the opposite of marriage love, 423-443; on promiscuity, 444[b]-460; on different kinds and degrees of adultery, 478-499; on obsession with defloration, 501-505; on the craving for variety, 506-510; on the craving for rape, 511, 512; on obsession with seducing the innocent, 513, 514; and on accountability for the love of infidelity and the love of marriage, 523-531. All the above are covered by this commandment in its earthly meaning.
313. THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
You are not to commit adultery.
In the natural sense, this commandment forbids not only committing adultery, but also having obscene desires and realising them, and so indulging in lascivious thoughts and talk. It is clear from these words of the Lord that even lusting is committing adultery:
You have heard that it was said by the men of old, You are not to commit adultery. But I say to you, that if anyone looks at another man's wife so as to lust after her, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart, Matthew 5:27-28.
The reason is that when lust is in the will, it becomes like a deed; for the enticement only enters the understanding, but the intention enters the will, and a lustful intention is a deed. More on this subject can be found in my book CONJUGIAL LOVE AND SCORTATORY 1 LOVE, published at Amsterdam in 1768. This contains sections on the opposition of [scortatory and] conjugial love (<../cl/423.htm">Conjugial Love 423-443); fornication (<../cl/444.htm">444-460); types degrees of adultery (<../cl/478.htm">478-499); the lust for deflowering (<../cl/501.htm">501-505); the lust for variety (<../cl/506.htm">506-510); the lust for rape (<../cl/511.htm">511-512); the lust for seducing the innocent (<../cl/513.htm">513-514); the imputation of either love, both scortatory and conjugial (<../cl/523.htm">523-531). All these ideas are meant by this commandment in the natural sense.
Footnotes:
1. A term to describe love which is the opposite of marriage love.
313. THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT.
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
In the natural sense, this commandment means not only not to commit adultery, but it refers also to willing and doing obscene things and thinking and speaking about lascivious things. That merely to lust is to commit adultery, is evident from the Lord's words:
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say to you, that everyone that looketh on another man's wife to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart (Matthew 5:27, 28).
The reason of this is that when lust enters the will it becomes, as it were, deed; for allurement enters into the understanding only, but into the will, intention; and the intention of a lust is a deed. But more on this subject may be seen in the work on Marriage Love and Scortatory Love (Amsterdam, 1768), which treats, On the Opposition of Marriage to Scortatory Love (<../cl/423.htm">n. 423-443); On Fornication (<../cl/444.htm">n. 444-460); On Adulteries and the Different Kinds and Degrees of Adultery (<../cl/478.htm">n. 478-499); On the Lust of Defloration (n. <../cl/501.htm">501-505); On the Lust for Variety (n. <../cl/506.htm">. 506-510); On the Lust of Violation (<../cl/511.htm">n. 511, 512); On the Lust of Seducing Innocences (<../cl/513.htm">n. 513, 514); On the Imputation of Scortatory Love and of Marriage Love (<../cl/523.htm">n. 523-531). All of these things are meant by this commandment in the natural sense.
313. THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
In the natural sense, this commandment means not only the committing of adultery, but also obscenity of will and conduct, and consequently impurity of thought and speech. That merely to lust is to commit adultery is evident from the words of the Lord:
"Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart" Matthew 5:27-28.
This is because lust, when in the will, acquires the nature of an act; for into the understanding enters allurement only, but into the will, intention; and the intention of lust is the deed. More, however, may be seen on this subject in the work, "Conjugial Love and Scortatory Love," published at Amsterdam in 1768, where the following subjects are dealt with: The opposition between conjugial and scortatory love, <../cl/423.htm">423-443; fornication, <../cl/444.htm">444-460; the several kinds and degrees of adultery, <../cl/478.htm">478-499; the lust of deflowering virgins, <../cl/501.htm">501-505; the lust of indulging in varieties, <../cl/506.htm">506-510; the lust of violation, <../cl/511.htm">511-512: the lust of seducing innocence, <../cl/513.htm">513-514; the imputation of love, both scortatory and conjugial, <../cl/523.htm">523-531. All these things are implied by this commandment in its natural sense.
313. SEXTUM PRAECEPTUM.
Non Moechaberis.
In SENSU NATURALI, per hoc Praeceptum intelligitur non modo Moechari, sed etiam obscaena velle et facere, et inde lasciva cogitare et loqui: quod modo concupiscere sit moechari, constat ex his Domini verbis, Audivistis quod a veteribus dictum, non moechaberis; Ego vero dico vobis, quod si quis aspexerit mulierem alienam, ita ut concupiscat eam, jam adulterium cum illa commiserit in corde suo, 1 Matthaeus 5:27-28: causa est, quia concupiscentia fit sicut factum, dum in voluntate est, nam in Intellectum modo intrat illecebra, at in voluntatem intentio, ac intentio concupiscentiae est factum: sed plura de his videantur in Opere de AMORE CONJUGIALI, ET DE AMORE SCORTATORIO, Amstelodami An. 1768 edito, in quo actum est, de Oppositione Amoris conjugialis 423-443, de Fornicatione, 444-460, de Adulteriis et illorum generibus et gradibus, 478-499, 2 De Libidine deflorationis, 501-505, De Libidine varietatum, 506-510, De Libidine violationis, 511-512, De Libidine seducendi innocentias, 513-514, De Imputatione utriusque amoris, scortatorii et conjugialis, 523-531. Haec omnia intelliguntur per hoc Praeceptum in Naturali Sensu.
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