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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: tongue. Now, whatever is done with the tongue against a fellow-man God
would have prohibited, whether it be false preachers with their
doctrine and blasphemy, false judges and witnesses with their verdict,
or outside of court by lying and evil-speaking. Here belongs
particularly the detestable, shameful vice of speaking behind a
person's back and slandering, to which the devil spurs us on and of
which there would be much to be said. For it is a common evil plague
that every one prefers hearing evil to hearing good of his neighbor;
and although we ourselves are so bad that we cannot suffer that any one
should say anything bad about us, but every one would much rather that
all the world should speak of him in terms of gold, yet we cannot bear
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