Matthew Poole and continuators on Exodus 20:17

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his oxe, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbours.

The coveting here forbidden is, either, 1. the inward and deliberate purpose and desire of a deceitful or violent taking away of another mans goods. But this is forbidden in the eighth commandment. And it is hard to conceive, that St. Paul should think, that this command did not forbid such a practise, Rom. 7. 7. which even the better sort of heathens esteemed a sin, whose words are, that they who are with-held from incest or whoredom or theft, onely from a principle of fear are guilty of those crimes, especially seeing the Old Testament Scriptures, which doubtless he diligently studied, do so plainly condemn evil purposes of the heart, as Lev. 19. 17. Deut. 9. 4, 5. and 15. 7, 9. &c. or 2. the greedy desire of that which is another mans, though it be without injury to him. Thus Ahab sinned in desiring Naboths vineyard, though he offered him mony for it, 1 King. 21. 2. or rather 3. those inward motions of the heart, which from the fountain of original corruption do spring up in the heart and tickle it with some secret delight, though they do not obtain the deliberate consent of the will. For seeing this law of God is spiritual and holy, Rom. 7. 12, 14. and reacheth the thoughts, intents and all the actual motions of the heart, as is apparent from the nature of God and of his law, and seeing such motions are both the fruits of a sinful nature and the common causes of sinful actions, and are not agreeable either to mans first and uncorrupted nature, or to Gods law, they must needs be a swerving from it, and therefore sin. And this is the reason why this command is added as distinct from all the rest.

Marginal references: Acts 20. 33. Rom. 7. 7.; Job 31. 9.