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Leviticus 24:16

Western Saints

Bonaventure

We take up the name of God in vain through uttering of blasphemous speech; and this occurs in three ways: first, when someone, speaking of God, uses cursing speech, as when he curses God. The second mode is through mendacious speech, when someone denies what is true of God, or affirms what is false; because Anselm says that the nobler part of every contradiction is to be attributed to God. …

Collationes de Decem Praeceptis, Collation 3 ↗