That we must not use detraction.

107. That we must not use detraction.

In Solomon, in the Proverbs: “Love not to detract, lest thou be taken away.”⁴⁶⁰⁶ Also in the forty-ninth Psalm: “Thou sattest, and spakest against thy brother; and against the son of thy mother thou placedst a stumbling-block.”⁴⁶⁰⁷ Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians:⁴⁶⁰⁸  “To speak ill of no man, nor to be litigious.”⁴⁶⁰⁹