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MATTHEW 10:36 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 10:35Matt 10:37
“And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”
And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. The direct quotation of Micah 7:6: the enemy within the house. The family that should be the source of support becomes the source of opposition when the family is divided along lines of loyalty to Jesus. John 7:5 records that Jesus' own brothers did not believe in him — the pattern appears even in the immediate family of Jesus himself. The enemies within the household are not to be met with violence but endured with the faith that the Father's care provides.

Church Fathers on Matthew 10:36

He had before said, 'What I say to you in darkness, that speak ye in the light;' He now tells them what will follow upon that preaching, saying, 'Think not that I am come to send peace upon earth; I am not come to send peace, but a sword.'

Jerome · 4th century

Or connect it with what has gone before, As the fear of death ought not to draw you away, so neither ought carnal affection.

Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation · interlin.

How then did He enjoin them, that when they should enter any house they should say, 'Peace be to this house,' as also the Angels sung, 'Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace to men.' [Luke 2:14] That is the most perfect peace when that which is diseased is lopped off, when that which introduces strife is taken away, for so only is it possible that heaven should be joined to earth. For so does the physician save the rest of the body, namely by cutting off that which…

Chrysostom · 4th century · Hom. xxxv
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