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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 20, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 24.

3476 — Is Polygamy a Sin?

By Editor

How could polygamy be truthfully called a sin if it be not a violation of the Decalogue?

The seventh commandment of the Decalogue forbids adultery, but it does not define adultery, the meaning of which, in its broad sense, is unlawful sexual connection, extended by our Lord to cherished thought and motive. Matt. 5:28. By that commandment guarding the purity of marriage we are carried back to the beginning, when God created for man one wife, and one only. It is not, the three or four should be one flesh, but "the two shall become one flesh." Mark 10:7, 8. See also Mal. 2:14, 15. Every moral precept and truth in God's Word is but the expanding of the Decalogue. See Hosea 8:12, A.R.V. All Bible history shows that polygamy is evil.