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 thus storing up in the treasure-house of his memory some gem of Divine truth which may be a light to him through the duties of the day.

Let us now turn to a consideration of the other Commandment, the tenth:—"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's."

As the ninth Commandment has reference to the love of the world, so this refers to the love of self,—in particular to that form of the love of self, which consists in desiring to rule over others, and subject them to our own will. That such is the meaning of this Commandment does not appear from the literal sense, but only from the spiritual. In that sense, by a man's house is signified his mental house, his mind; and by the things and persons in the house, as wife, man-servant, maid-servant, are signified principles and affections in man's mind. That such is the signification of house in the true sense of Scripture, is plain from the Lord's words, "I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man's foes shall be those of his own household." Here by the household is signified the inner household of man's own mind; and by the father, mother, mother-in-law, who are to be opposed, are signified man's hereditary evils and falses which are to be resisted and overcome: the foes of his household are