Matthew 5:28

“But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman, etc.] Many and severe are the prohibitions of the Jews, concerning looking upon a woman, which they aggravate as a very great sin: they say f300, it is not lawful to look upon a beautiful woman, though unmarried; nor upon another man’s wife, though deformed; nor upon a woman’s coloured garments: they forbid f301 looking on a woman’s little finger, and say f302, that he that tells money to a woman, out of his hand into her’s, that he may look upon her, though he is possessed of the law and good works, even as Moses, he shall not escape the damnation of hell: they affirm f303, that he that looks upon a woman’s heel, his children shall not…”

“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her--with the intent to do so, as the same expression is used in Mat 6:1; or, with the full consent of his will, to feed thereby his unholy desires. hath committed adultery with her already in his heart--We are not to suppose, from the word here used--"adultery"--that our Lord means to restrict the breach of this commandment to married persons, or to criminal intercourse with such. The expressions, "whosoever looketh," and "looketh upon a woman," seem clearly to extend the range of this commandment to all forms of impurity, and the counsels which follow--as they most certainly were intended for all, whether married or…”

“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery - See the notes at Matthew 5:21. Our Saviour in these verses explains the seventh commandment. It is probable that the Pharisees had explained this commandment, as they had the sixth, as extending only to the external act; and that they regarded evil thoughts and a wanton imagination as of little consequence, or as not forbidden by the law. Our Saviour assures them that the commandment did not regard the external act merely, but the secrets of the heart, and the movements of the eye. He declares that they who indulge a wanton desire, that they who look on a woman to increase their lust, have already, in the…”

“I say: Mat 5:22, Mat 5:39, Mat 7:28, Mat 7:29 That: Gen 34:2, 39:7-23; Exo 20:17; Sa2 11:2; Job 31:1, Job 31:9; Pro 6:25; Jam 1:14, Jam 1:15; Pe2 2:14; Jo1 2:16 hath: Psa 119:96; Rom 7:7, Rom 7:8, Rom 7:14 Matthew 5:29”