Sixth Commandment

Sixth Commandment
The divine law that states that killing a human being is a sin.

Long before, in the great controversy over smallpox inoculation, he was said to have been an anticlerical heretic who violated the Sixth Commandment and deserved to be stuck in the pillory; [...]


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