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"A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness breatheth out lies," says Solomon, in marking the one all-dividing line of character; and as to the results of lying he says, "He that breatheth out lies shall not escape," and "he that breatheth out lies shall perish."
He sees the all-dividing line, and recognizes the primal duty of conforming to it; yet he feels that it is a pity that such conformity must be so expensive in certain imaginary cases, and he longs to find some allowance for desirable exceptions. Knowl., p. 57; Johnson's Univ. Cycl.., art.
Because all-uniting nature imparted its forms to the Greek, and an all-dividing understanding gives our forms to us. It was culture itself that gave these wounds to modern humanity.
Hunting. Catching Horse. Professor Bowne's Psychological View. No Place for Lying in God's Universe. Small Improvement on Chrysostom's Argument for Lying. Limits of Consistency in Logical Plea. God, or Satan. One All-Dividing Line. Primal and Eternal Difference. Lie Inevitably Hostile to God. Lying Separates from God. Sin per se. Perjury Justifiable if Lying be Justifiable.
It would seem that the one all-dividing line in the universe, which never changes or varies, is the line between the true and the false, between the truth and a lie.
The Egyptians, like the Zoroastrians, seemed to count the one all-dividing line in the universe the line between truth and falsehood, between light and darkness. Among the ancient Greeks the practice of lying was very general, so general that writers on the social life of the Greeks have been accustomed to give a low place relatively to that people in its estimate of truthfulness as a virtue.
Because all-uniting nature imparted its forms to the Greek, and an all-dividing understanding gives our forms to us. It was culture itself that gave these wounds to modern humanity.
Because all-uniting nature imparted its forms to the Greek, and an all-dividing understanding gives our forms to us. It was culture itself that gave these wounds to modern humanity.
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