<P> John Calvin views the tenth commandment as a demand for purity of the heart, above and beyond the outward actions . Calvin distinguishes between making an explicit design to obtain what belongs to our neighbor and a covetous desire in the heart . For Calvin, design is a deliberate consent of the will, after passion has taken possession of the mind . Covetousness may exist without such a deliberate design, when the mind is stimulated and tickled by objects on which we set our affection . </P> <P> As, therefore, the Lord previously ordered that charity should regulate our wishes, studies, and actions, so he now orders us to regulate the thoughts of the mind in the same way, that none of them may be depraved and distorted, so as to give the mind a contrary bent . Having forbidden us to turn and incline our mind to wrath, hatred, adultery, theft, and falsehood, he now forbids us to give our thoughts the same direction . </P> <P> In explaining the prohibition on covetousness, Calvin views the mind as either being filled with charitable thoughts toward one's brother and neighbor, or being inclined toward covetous desires and designs . The mind wholly imbued with charity has no room for carnal desires . Calvin recognizes that all sorts of fancies rise up in the mind, and he exhorts the individual to exercise choice and discipline to shifting one's thoughts away from fleshly desires and passions . Calvin asserts that God's intention in the command is to prohibit every kind of perverse desire . </P> <P> Matthew Henry sees the tenth commandment striking at the root of many sins by forbidding all desire that may yield injury to one's neighbor . The language of discontent and envy are forbidden in the heart and mind . The appetites and desires of the corrupt nature are proscribed, and all are enjoined to see our face in the reflection of this law and to submit our hearts under the government of it . </P>

You shall not covet your neighbor's wife reflection