But rather division (αλλ' η διαμερισμον). Peace at any price is not the purpose of Christ. It is a pity for family jars to come, b…

Suppose ye that I am come to give peace?—See Notes on Matthew 10:34-35. The chief variations are “division” for “sword,” and, in Luke 12:5…

Although the Messiah was to bring peace (cf. 2:14), this was not his only mission, nor, in the political sense, his immediate one.[Reference Isaiah…

Do you suppose that I came to send peace on the earth? What Christ has now demanded from his disciples, any one of them would consider it …

Suppose you that I am come to give peace on earth ?
&c.] To set up a temporal kingdom, in great pomp, and outward pe…

All are to apply to themselves what Christ says in His word and to inquire about it. No one is left so ignorant that they do not know many things t…