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Slander

Slander

Slander

See Evil-speaking.

Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church

SLANDER

According to Dr. Barrow, is uttering false speeches against our neighbour, to the prejudice of his fame, safety, welfare; and that out of malignity, vanity, rashness, ill nature, or bad design. The principal kinds of slander are these:

1. Charging others with facts they are not guilty of.

2. Affixing scandalous names and odious characters which they deserve not.

3. Aspersing a man’s actions with foul names, importing that they proceed from evil principles, or tend to bad ends, when it doth not or cannot appear.

4. Perverting a man’s words or acts disadvantageously by affected misconstruction.

5. Partial or lame representation of men’s discourse or practice, suppressing some part of the truth, or concealing some circumstances which ought to be explained.

6. Instilling sly suggestions which create prejudice in the hearers.

7. Magnifying and aggravating the faults of others.

8. Imputing to our neighbour’s practice, judgment, or profession, evil consequences which have no foundation in truth. Of all the characters in society, a slanderer is the most odious, and the most likely to produce mischief. “His tongue, ” says the great Massilon, “is a devouring fire, which tarnishes whatever it touches; which exercises its fury on the good grain equally as on the chaff; on the profane as on the sacred; which, wherever it passes, leaves only desolation and ruin; digs even into the bowels of the earth; turns into vile ashes what only a moment before had appeared to us so precious and brilliant, acts with more violence and danger than ever, in the time when it was apparently smothered up and almost extinct; which blackens what it cannot consume, and sometimes sparkles and delights before it destroys.

It is an assemblage of an iniquity, a secret pride, which discovers to us the mote in our brother’s eye, but hides the beam which is in our own; a mean envy, which, hurt at the talents or prosperity of others, makes them the subjects of its censures, and studies to dim the splendour of whatever outshines itself; a disguised hatred, which sheds in its speeches the hidden venom of the heart; an unworthy duplicity which praises to the face, and tears in pieces behind the back; a shameful levity, which has no command over itself or words, and often sacrifices both fortune and comfort to the imprudence of an amusing conversation; a deliberate barbarity, which goes to pierce an absent brother; a scandal, where we become a subject of shame and sin to those who listen to us; an injustice, where we ravish from our brother what is dearest to him. It is a restless evil, which disturbs society; spreads dissention through cities and countries; disunites the strictest friendship; is the source of hatred and revenge; fills wherever it enters with disturbances and confusion; and every where is an enemy to peace, comfort, and Christian good breeding.

Lastly, it is an evil full of deadly poison: whatever flows from it is infected, and poisons whatever it approaches; even its praises are empoisoned; its applauses malicious; its silence criminal; its gestures, motions, and looks, have alltheir venom, and spread it each in their way. Still more dreadful is this evil when it is found among those who are the professed disciples of Jesus Christ. Ah! the church formerly held in horror the exhibitions of gladiators, and denied that believers, brought up in the tenderness and benignity of Jesus Christ, could innocently feast their eyes with the blood and death of these unfortunate slaves, or form an harmless recreation of so inhuman a pleasure; but these renew more detestable shows; for they bring upon the stage not infamous wretches devoted to death, but members of Jesus Christ, their brethren; and there they entertain the spectators with wounds which they inflict on persons” who have devoted themselves to God. Barrow’s Works, vol. 1: ser. 17, 18; Massilon’s Sermons, vol. 1: ser. 5: English trans. and article EVIL SPEAKING.

Fuente: Theological Dictionary

slander

Attributing to another, in his absence, a fault of which one knows him to be innocent. It contains a twofold malice, arising first from the damage unjustly done our neighbor’s good name and secondly from the lie. Slander differs from detraction inasmuch as it is the imputing gf a misdeed never committed, while detraction reveals an actual but hidden fault.

Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Slander

Slander is the attributing to another of a fault of which one knows him to be innocent. It contains a twofold malice, that which grows out of damage unjustly done to our neighbor’s good name and that of lying as well. Theologians say that this latter guilt considered in itself, in so far as it is an offence against veracity, may not be grievous, but that nevertheless it will frequently be advisable to mention it in confession, in order that the extent and method of reparation may be settled. The important thing to note of slander is that it is a lesion of our neighbor’s right to his reputation. Hence moralists hold that it is not specifically distinct from mere detraction. For the purpose of determining the species of this sin, the manner in which the injury is done is negligible. There is, however, this difference between slander and detraction: that, whereas there are circumstances in which we may lawfully expose the misdeeds which another has actually committed, we are never allowed to blacken his name by charging him with what he has not done. A lie is intrinsically evil and can never be justified by any cause or in any circumstances. Slander involves a violation of commutative justice and therefore imposes on its perpetrator the obligation of restitution. First of all, he must undo the injury of the defamation itself. There seems in general to be only one adequate way to do this: he must simply retract his false statement. Moralists say that if he can make full atonement by declaring that he has made a mistake, this will be sufficient; otherwise he must unequivocally take back his untruth, even at the expense of exhibiting himself a liar. In addition he is bound to make compensation to his victim for whatever losses may have been sustained as a result of his malicious imputation. It is supposed that the damage which ensues has been in some measure foreseen by the slanderer.

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JOSEPH F. DELANY Transcribed by Bob Elder

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIVCopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York

Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slander

according to Dr. Barrow, is uttering false speeches against our neighbor, to the prejudice of his fame, safety, welfare, and that out of malignity, vanity, rashness, ill nature, or bad design. The principal kinds of slander are these:

(1) charging others with faults they are not guilty of;

(2) affixing scandalous names and odious characters which they deserve not;

(3) aspersing a man’s actions with foul names, importing that they proceed from evil principles, or tend to bad ends, when it does not or cannot appear;

(4) perverting a man’s words or acts disadvantageously by affected misconstruction;

(5) partial or lame representation of men’s discourse or practice, suppressing some part of the truth or concealing some circumstances which ought to be explained;

(6) instilling sly suggestions which create prejudice in the hearers;

(7) magnifying and aggravating the faults of others;

(8) imputing to our neighbor’s practice, judgment, or profession evil consequences which have no foundation in truth.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Slander

slander (substantive, , dibbah, slander; , diabolos, slanderer; verb , raghal, to slink about as a talebearer, , lashan, to use the tongue, to slander; , diaballo, to calumniate, to slander; and other words): Slander (etymologically a doublet of scandal, from OFr. esclandre, Latin scandalum, stumblingblock) is an accusation maliciously uttered, with the purpose or effect of damaging the reputation of another. As a rule it is a false charge (compare Mat 5:11); but it may be a truth circulated insidiously and with a hostile purpose (e.g. Dan 3:8, brought accusation against, where Septuagint has diaballo, slander; Luk 16:1, the same Greek word). Warnings, condemnations and complaints in reference to this sin are very frequent, both in the Old Testament and New Testament. Mischievous tale-bearing or whispering is condemned (Lev 19:16; Eze 22:9). There are repeated warnings against evil-speaking (as in Psa 34:13; Pro 15:28; Eph 4:31; Col 3:8; Jam 4:11; 1Pe 3:10), which is the cause of so much strife between man and man (Pro 16:27-30), and which recoils on the speaker himself to his destruction (Psa 101:5; Psa 140:11). Especially is false witness, which is slander carried into a court of justice, to be condemned and punished (Exo 20:16; Deu 19:16-21; compare Pro 12:17; Pro 14:5, Pro 14:25; Pro 19:5; Pro 21:28; Pro 24:28). Special cases of slander more than usually mean are when a wife’s chastity is falsely impeached by her husband (Deu 22:13-19), and when one slanders a servant to his master (Pro 30:10). Even a land may be slandered as well as persons (Num 14:36). Slanderers and backbiters are mentioned in some of Paul’s darkest catalogues of evildoers (Rom 1:29, Rom 1:30; 2Co 12:20; 2Ti 3:3). To refrain from slander is an important qualification for citizenship in theocracy (Psa 15:1, Psa 15:3; Psa 24:3, Psa 24:4) and for a place in the Christian church (1Ti 3:11; Tit 2:3). Jesus Himself was the victim of slanders (Mat 11:19) and of false testimony (Mat 27:63). The apostles, too, came in for a full share of it (e.g. Act 24:5 f; Act 28:22; 2Co 6:8). In the case of Paul, even his central doctrine of justification was slanderously reported as if it encouraged immorality (Rom 3:8). The devil (= the calumniator) is represented as the great accuser of God’s people (Rev 12:10), the slanderer par excellence (compare Job 1:9-11; Zec 3:1). See also CRIMES; PUNISHMENTS.

Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Slander

Comes from the evil heart

Luk 6:45

Often arises from hatred

Psa 109:3

Idleness leads to

1Ti 5:13

The wicked addicted to

Psa 50:20

Hypocrites addicted to

Pro 11:9

A characteristic of the devil

Rev 12:10

The wicked love

Psa 52:4

They who indulge in, are fools

Pro 10:18

Women warned against

Tit 2:3

Ministers’ wives should avoid

1Ti 3:11

Christ was exposed to

Psa 35:11; Mat 26:60

Rulers exposed to

Jud 1:8

Ministers exposed to

Rom 3:8; 2Co 6:8

The nearest relations exposed to

Psa 50:20

Saints exposed to

Psa 38:12; Psa 109:2; 1Pe 4:4

Saints:

Should keep their tongues from

Psa 34:13; 1Pe 3:10

Should lay aside

Eph 4:31

Should be warned against

Tit 3:1-2

Should give no occasion for

1Pe 2:12; 1Pe 3:16

Should return good for

1Co 4:13

Blessed in enduring

Mat 5:11

Characterized as avoiding

Psa 15:1; Psa 15:3

Should not be listened to

1Sa 24:9

Causes anger

Pro 25:23

Effects of:

Separating friends

Pro 16:28; Pro 17:9

Deadly wounds

Pro 18:8; Pro 26:22

Strife

Pro 26:20

Discord among brethren

Pro 6:19

Murder

Psa 31:13; Eze 22:9

The tongue of:

Is a scourge

Job 5:21

Is venomous

Psa 140:3; Ecc 10:11

Is destructive

Pro 11:9

End of, is mischievous madness

Ecc 10:13

Men shall give account for

Mat 12:36

Punishment for

Deu 19:16-21

Unclassified scriptures relating to

Exo 23:1; Deu 22:13-19; Job 5:21; Psa 41:6-9; Psa 50:20; Psa 101:5; Pro 10:18; Pro 25:23; Jer 6:28; Jer 9:4; Rom 1:29-30; 1Co 4:13; 1Co 6:10; 2Co 12:20; Jas 4:11; 1Pe 2:1; 2Pe 2:10

Instances of:

Joseph, by Potiphar’s wife

Gen 39:14-18

Land of Canaan misrepresented by the spies

Num 14:36

Of Mephibosheth, by Ziba

2Sa 16:3; 2Sa 19:24-30

Of David, by his enemies

Psa 31:13; Psa 35:21; Psa 41:5; Psa 64:3; Psa 140:3

Of Naboth, by Jezebel

1Ki 21:9-14

Of Jeremiah, by the Jews

Jer 18:18

Of Jesus, by the Jews:

b Falsely charging that he was a winebibber

Mat 11:19

b Falsely charging that he blasphemed

Mar 14:64; Joh 5:18

b Falsely charging that he had a devil

Joh 8:48; Joh 8:52; Joh 10:20

b Falsely charging that he was seditious

Luk 22:65; Luk 23:5

b Falsely charging that he was a king

Luk 23:2; Joh 18:37; Joh 19:1-5

Of Paul

Paul; Accusation, False; False Witness; Falsehood; Speaking, Evil

Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible