Exodus 20:17

“Thou shall not covet thy neighbour’s house, etc.] This is the tenth and last commandment, and is an explanation of several of the past; showing that the law of God not only forbids external acts of sin, but the inward and first motions of the mind to it, which are not known, and would not be thought to be sinful, were it not for this law; nor are they known by this law until the Spirit of God by it convinces men of them, in whose light they see them to be sinful; even not only the schemes and contrivances of sin in the mind, the imaginations of it, thoughts dwelling upon it with pleasure, but even the first risings of sin in the heart; and such motions of it which are not assented unto, and…”

“The Hebrew name which is rendered in our King James Version as the ten commandments occurs in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 10:4. It literally means “the Ten Words.” The Ten Commandments are also called the law, even the commandment Exodus 24:12, the words of the covenant Exodus 34:28, the tables of the covenant Deuteronomy 9:9, the covenant Deuteronomy 4:13, the two tables Deuteronomy 9:10, Deuteronomy 9:17, and, most frequently, the testimony (e. g. Exodus 16:34; Exodus 25:16), or the two tables of the testimony (e. g. Exodus 31:18). In the New Testament they are called simply the commandments (e. g. Matthew 19:17). The name decalogue is found first in Clement of Alexandria,…”

“Thou shalt not covet - 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. God give us all to see our face in the glass of this law, and to lay our hearts under the government of it! Exodus 20:18”

“20:17 This final principle circles back to the first, for “a greedy person is an idolater” (Col 3:5). Covetousness is the worship of this world, the belief that possessions, especially those my neighbor possesses, will give me lasting happiness. To believe this is to break one’s covenant of absolute loyalty to God, who alone supplies our needs. See also Rom 7:7.”

“thy neighbour's house: Gen 3:6, Gen 14:23, Gen 34:23; Jos 7:21; Sa1 15:19; Psa 10:3, Psa 119:36; Ecc 4:8, Ecc 5:10, Ecc 5:11; Isa 33:15, Isa 57:17; Jer 22:17; Eze 33:31; Amo 2:6, Amo 2:7; Mic 2:2; Hab 2:9; Luk 12:15, Luk 16:14; Act 20:33; Rom 7:7; Co1 6:10; Phi 3:19; Col 3:5; Ti1 6:6-10; Heb 13:5 wife: Sa2 11:2-4; Job 31:1, Job 31:9; Pro 4:23, Pro 6:24, Pro 6:25; Jer 5:8; Mat 5:28 is thy neighbour's: Mat 20:15; Act 5:4 Exodus 20:18”