bearing false witness

Why are they so willing to discard the core principle of not bearing false witness?

Oh and if her husband loses the duel, Marguerite gets burned at the stake for bearing false witness.

Pap says Sheriff Jackson’s one ’em people that take all the talk about not bearing false witness to heart.

He adds that in upholding some commandments, they ignore the forbidding of bearing false witness and vilification.

Yes, we know all about that business about not bearing false witness in the Ten Commandments, but that was a very long time ago.