[4] By false swearing, which, some think, is chiefly intended in the letter of the commandment, so it was expounded by those of old times. Thou shalt not forswear thyself, Matthew 5:33. One part of the religious regard the Jews were taught to pay to their God was to swear by his name, Deuteronomy 10:20. But they affronted him, instead of doing him honour, if they called him to be witness to a lie