Oath:
a solemn appeal to God, permitted on fitting occasions (Deu 6:13; Jer 4:2), in various forms (Gen 16:5; 2Sa 12:5; Rth 1:17; Hsa 4:15; Rom 1:9), and taken in different ways (Gen 14:22; 24:2; 2Ch 6:22). God is represented as taking an oath (Hbr 6:16-18), so also Christ (Mat 26:64), and Paul (Rom 9:1; Gal 1:20; Phl 1:8). The precept, "Swear not at all," refers probably to ordinary conversation between man and man (Mat 5:34,37). But if the words are taken as referring to oaths, then their intention may have been to show "that the proper state of Christians is to require no oaths; that when evil is expelled from among them every yea and nay will be as decisive as an oath, every promise as binding as a vow."
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