Thou shall not commit adultery,
] Which, strictly speaking, is only that sin which is committed
with another man's wife, as Jarchi observes; but Aben Ezra thinks
the word here used signifies the same as another more commonly
used for whoredom and fornication; and no doubt but fornication
is here included, which, though it was not reckoned a crime among
some Heathens, is within the reach of this law, and forbidden by
it, it being an impure action, and against a man's body, as the
apostle says, ( 1
Corinthians 6:18 ) as well as sins of a more enormous kind,
as unnatural lusts and copulations, such as incest, sodomy,
bestiality, &c. and even all unchaste thoughts, desires, and
affections, obscene words, and impure motions and gestures of the
body, and whatever is in itself unclean or tends to uncleanness;
as it also requires that we should, as much as in us lies, do all
we can to preserve our chastity, and the chastity of others, pure
and inviolate, see ( Matthew 5:28
) , this is the seventh commandment.