 Slanderers are not content with knowing a thing, but “proceed to assume jurisdiction, and when they know a slight offense of another, carry it into every corner, and are delighted and tickled that they can stir up another's displeasure [baseness], as swine roll themselves in the dirt and root in it with the snout.” Luther describes this as meddling with the judgment and office of God, and pronouncing sentence and punishment with the most severe verdict.Without wielding the sword, the slanderer employs a poisonous tongue to the shame and hurt of your neighbor.Matthew Henry taught that the prohibition against false witness concerns our own and our neighbor's good name.