Slander (8)
speak evil of no one, nor listen with pleasure to any one who speaks evil of another. But if you listen, you will partake of the sin of him who speaks evil, if you believe the slander which you hear; for believing it, you will also have something to say against your brother. Thus, then, will you be guilty of the sin of him who slanders. For slander is evil and an unsteady demon. It never abides in peace, but always remains in discord. Keep yourself from it, and you will always be at peace with all.
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https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/shepherd.html It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
I wish that I may be so far from speaking ill of them that are good, that I may rather be silent than, without a just cause and call, speak ill of them that are evil. Though the wicked, like dogs, fall upon the sheep of Christ with open mouth, and strive to bury their good names in the open sepulchre of their wide throats, yet the sheep of Christ do rather suffer their rage with patience, than render reviling for reviling.
If I speak evil of any of the saints, I speak evil of myself, and of the Master whom they serve.
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Slander is a water in great request; every guest of the devil is continually sipping of this vial. It robs man of his good name, which is above all riches. It is the part of vile men to vilify others and to climb up to unmerited praise by the stairs of another's disgrace.
To divulge a report before we speak with the party and know the truth of it is unmercifulness and cannot acquit itself of sin. The same word in the Hebrew, to raise a slander, signifies to receive it (Ex. 23:1). The receiver is even as bad as the thief; it is well if none of us have, in this sense, received stolen goods. When others have stolen away the good names of their brethren, have not we received the stolen goods? There would not be so many to broach false rumors, but that they see this liquor pleases other men's taste.
It were better for me to be sick and solitary in my bed, than to be censuring or reflecting upon the Lord's servants.
I wish that my tongue may never be so set on fire of hell, as to speak evil of those that are the heirs of heaven.
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