<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> <P> The foregoing commands implicitly forbid all desire of doing that which will be an injury to our neighbour; this forbids all inordinate desire of having that which will be a gratification to ourselves . "O that such a man's house were mine! Such a man's wife mine! Such a man's estate mine!' ' This is certainly the language of discontent at our own lot, and envy at our neighbour's; and these are the sins principally forbidden here . St. Paul, when the grace of God caused the scales to fall from his eyes, perceived that this law, Thou shalt not covet, forbade all those irregular appetites and desires which are the first - born of the corrupt nature, the first risings of the sin that dwelleth in us, and the beginnings of all the sin that is committed by us: this is that lust which, he says, he had not known the evil of, if this commandment, when it came to his conscience in the power of it, had not shown it to him, Rom. 7: 7 . </P>

What does it mean thou shalt not covet