If anyone lusts after another man's wife, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matt. 5:27, 28.

The external man does not become internal, or act as one with the internal, until lusts have been removed. This too is taught by the Lord, when He says:

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but the insides are full of robbery and intemperance. You blind Pharisee, clean first the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside too may be clean. Matt. 23:25, 26.

See in addition the whole of that chapter from beginning to end. The internals which are Pharisaical are longings for the things prohibited by the first, second, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth commandments.

[2] It is well known that while He was in the world the Lord taught the interior doctrines of the church; and these forbid one to long for evil actions. This He taught, so that the internal and external man should make one. This is being born anew, as the Lord said to Nicodemus (John chapter 3). No one can be born anew or regenerated, and so become an internal man, except by the Lord's doing. In order to make these two commandments look back to all that go before, forbidding longing for them, the house is named first, then the wife, and then the man-servant, maid-servant, ox and ass, and lastly everything belonging to the neighbour. The house implies all that follows, for it contains husband, wife, man-servant, maid-servant, ox and ass. The wife who is mentioned next implies what follows, since she is the mistress, just as her husband is master in the house. The man-servant and maid-servant are under their control, and the oxen and asses under the control of the servants. Then finally come everything beneath or outside, which is called 'everything that is your neighbour's.' This makes it plain that these two commandments look back to all the preceding ones in general and in particular, both in a broad and