Do not even swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.
Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ Anything else you say comes from the evil one.
REFLECTION:
"Say ‘yes’ when you mean ‘yes’ and ‘no’ when you mean ‘no’.” There’s something so amazingly refreshing in the admonition
Jesus gives to us in the Gospel. But it’s a freshness that’s due more to the fact that we often do the exact opposite,
complicating our words, expressing our thoughts with so much affectation, and articulating our statements with so many
qualifications that those with whom we converse find it difficult to truly understand what we mean.
“Anything else is from the evil one”, Jesus says. There is an utter simplicity to truth that an unadorned statement is able to convey.
The evil one, on the other hand, uses every form of subtle prevarication and equivocation in order to hide his true intention.
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