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		<title>&#8220;Thou shalt not commit adultery&#8221;</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diagrams illustrating conjunction between husband and wife on different levels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How the man regards his wife when he doesn't come into the love of growing wise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[If one is not married, on what he/she is spiritually dependent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inmost becoming a form of the true, being in the affection of the true (of her husband or/and of the Church) as the primary concern for a woman, and not the things of love and of life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[man's pride in his intelligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The love of growing wise as the primary end for a man, and not the rational understanding of the Word, Doctrine and intellectual things in general]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turning away from charity alone to the internal true]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turning away from faith alone to the love of growing wise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What to do, when one partner is spiritual, and the other natural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When the man regards the true of the understanding as the essential, and the woman regards the things of what she calls life and love, as the essential, conjugial love is not possible]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>&#160; To understand this commandment, not to commit adultery, we must understand the origin of adultery, and in order to understand the origin of adultery we must understand the nature of the marriage between husband and wife. We read: &#8220;There is the truth of good and good from truth from that or truth from good [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Thou shalt not steal&#8221; by Rev. Theodore Pitcairn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Merely natural vs. genuine natural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merit in works]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Natural uses as foundation for spiritual uses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spending spiritual wealth on vulgar display]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squandering spiritual wealth in fantastic spiritual pleasures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stealing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stealing of goods and truths, with a man and with a woman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stealing the things from the Word and the Doctrine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When a man deprives others of innocence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[When the natural use becomes a dead body, and the spiritual use a ghost]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Thou Shalt Not Steal&#8221; We read: &#8220;Amen, amen, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers. The thief cometh [&#8230;]</p>
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