But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these comes from evil.
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Rabanus Maurus
AD 856
Having forbidden swearing, He instructs us how we ought to speak, “Let your speech be yea, yea; nay, nay.” That is, to affirm any thing it is sufficient tosay, ‘It is so;’ to deny, to say, ‘It is not so.’Or, “yea, yea; nay, nay,” are therefore twice repeated, that what you affirm with the mouth you should prove in deed, and what you deny in word, you should not establish by your conduct.
