And know further that the din of speaking lashon hara in the instance of a sin "between man and his neighbor" and in that of a sin "between man and his Maker" is the same, except that in a sin between man and his Maker it is not permitted to speak [lashon hara] against him even if all the aforementioned details in section 2 were satisfied, unless he saw him holding on to that sin and doing it several times wittingly, and it were known to all that it were an issur (see above Principle IV, section 7, where we explained this in all of its details.)