Matthew Henry’s Westminster Shorter Catechism Commentary: 67

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Does the sixth commandment concern our own and our neighbour’s life? Yes: for the life is more than meat,

Matt. 6:25

. Has God a tender regard to the life of men? Yes: for he giveth to all life and breath,

Acts 17:25

. Has he by this law made a hedge about life? Yes: that men might not be like the fishes of the sea, Habak. 1:14.

Did there need be this law? Yes: for men live in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another,

Titus 3:3

. Is it a part of the law of nature? Yes: for the barbarous people said of a murderer, that vengeance suffers him not to live,

Acts 28:4

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Matthew Henry’s Westminster Shorter Catechism Commentary on Question 67