For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Christ does not will this division; wicked men cause it. When His doctrine is preached, those once united in blood will split into factions, a sign of how far corruption has spread. Yet He does not mean every believer must abandon parents and wife; rather, He warns that when family bonds crack over faith, His followers must not be shaken.
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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
The Gospel age arrives wearing the same dark face Micah saw in his ruinous time: son against father, daughter against mother, a man's own household become his enemies. The Jews themselves expected their Messiah's coming to bring precisely this moral collapse. Christ's generation lived it out exactly as foretold.
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