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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: has added these two commandments in order that it be esteemed as sin
and forbidden to desire or in any way to aim at getting our neighbor's
wife or possessions; and especially because under the Jewish government
man-servants and maid-servants were not free as now to serve for wages
as long as they pleased, but were their master's property with their
body and all they had, as cattle and other possessions. Moreover,
every man had power over his wife to put her away publicly by giving
her a bill of divorce, and to take another. Therefore they were in
constant danger among each other that if one took a fancy to another's
wife, he might allege any reason both to dismiss his own wife and to
estrange the other's wife from him, that he might obtain her under
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