Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Christ sends you as sheep into wolves' jaws, so you must learn to combine the serpent's cunning with the dove's innocence. He forewarned the disciples of sufferings to come, not to shake their faith, but to steel it; when troubles arrive as He predicted, they will confirm rather than destroy what you believe.
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Commenting on Matthew 10:16-42
For I am come to set a man at variance against,.... Or "to divide a man from his father". Here our Lord opens and explains what he means by the sword, intestine divisions, domestic broils, family differences, as well as such as appear in towns, cities, and kingdoms, which are exemplified by other instances following; and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against...
Verses 34-36. Think not that I am come, etc. This is taken from . Christ did not here mean to say that the object of his coming was to produce discord and contention, for he was the Prince of peace, ; but he means to say that such would be one of the effects of his coming.