But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy talk out of your mouth.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Blasphemy. It may here signify either the sin of blasphemy against God, or speaking ill of our neighbour by detraction, calumnies, affronts See St. Chrysostom. (Witham)
Now that you live in God, with Jesus Christ, quit not only the above shameful crimes, but also these sins, which, although they excite less horror, will separate you no less from the Author of all sanctity.
But now put away all these also.
He speaks always both universally and particularly; but this is from earnestness.
Anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth. Lie not one to another.
Shameful speaking, he says, out of your mouth, clearly intimating that it pollutes it.
