Matthew 10:34 (WEB)
“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.
Fathers and councils · 32
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…after me, cannot be my disciple;” and again, “Taking up the cross, follow me;” but the separating power when He said, “I came not to send peace, but a sword.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
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Jerome
“Matt. x. 22–34.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“If thou findest fault with Him who saith, I am God that make peace, and create evil, explain how Jesus saith, I came not to send peace but a sword.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Now that He might war against the powers of temporal error, the Lord, being about to send not peace but a sword on earth, in time, or in manifestation, set so to say His military dwelling, that is, the dispensation of His incarnation.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
Read the whole comment“We read these words in the Gospel, “I came not to send peace, but a sword.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
Read the whole comment“Both “Fire I am come to send into the world,” thou hast in the Gospel: and “A sword I have come to send into the earth,” thou hast in the Gospel.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
Read the whole comment“For desolate they suppose them to be, from whom ofttimes by the sword of the Word of God both parents from sons, and husbands from wives, are severed: but persons destitute and widowed have the consolation “of the Father of orphans and Judge of…” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
Read the whole comment“The Lord Himself saith: “I am come to send fire on the earth:” “fire” in the same way as a “sword;” as in another passage He saith, that He was not come to send peace, but a sword, upon earth.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
Read the whole comment“For He was about to separate believers from unbelievers, sons from parents, and to sever all other ties, while the sword cut off what was diseased, but healed the members of Christ.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
Read the whole comment“Is not this the sword whereof the Lord said, “I am not come to send peace upon earth, but a sword”?” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
Read the whole commentChapter XXX.—Of the Section Where It is Recorded, that Being Moved with Compassion for the Multitudes, He Sent His Disciples, Giving Them Power to Work Cures, and Charged Them with Many Instructions, Directing Them…
Read the whole comment“And our Lord says, “I am not come to send peace on earth, but a sword.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
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John Chrysostom
“Wherefore also Himself hath said, “I am come not to bring peace upon the earth but a sword.” ( Matt. x. 34.)” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“For no other sword would have penetrated the hidden feeling of those women, except the sword of the Spirit, of which the Lord says: “I am not come to send peace but a sword.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. x. 34.
Read the whole comment“Lastly, in the Gospel also the Lord Jesus Himself says: “I came not to send peace but a sword.”” — editor's note: S. Matt. x. 34.
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Tertullian
“And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
Read the whole comment“This sword the Lord Himself came to send on earth, and not peace.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
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Gregory the Great
“Hence in person the Truth says, Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword (Matth. x. 34).” — the author cites it
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Hippolytus of Rome
“This is, he says, what has been spoken: “I came not to send peace on the earth, but a sword,”—that is, the division and separation of the things that have been commingled.” — editor's note: Matt. x. 34.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
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…
Read the whole comment - Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on Matthew
Or connect it with what has gone before, As the fear of death ought not to draw you away, so neither ought carnal affection.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
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…
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For in the matter of belief in Christ, the whole world was divided against itself; each house had its believers and its unbelievers; and therefore was this holy war sent, that an unholy peace might be broken through.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
This He said as it were comforting His disciples, as much as to say, Be not troubled as though these things fell upon you unexpectedly; for this cause I came that I might send war upon the earth - nay He says not…
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These are almost the words of the Prophet Micah. [Mic 7:6] We should always take note when a passage is cited out of the Old Testament, whether the sense only, or the very words are given.
Read the whole comment - Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew
Mystically, a sword is the sharpest of all weapons, and thence it is the emblem of the right of authority, the impartiality of justice, the correction of offenders. The word of God, we may remember, is likened to a…
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Otherwise, “I am come to set a man against his father;” for he renounces the Devil who was his son; “the daughter against her mother,” that is, the people of God against the city of the world, that is, the wicked…
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For no other mutual rights can be preserved between those who are at war in their creeds.
Read the whole comment - Glossa OrdinariaCatena Aurea on Matthew
Otherwise; He mean, I am not come among men to strengthen their carnal affections, but to cut them off with the sword of the Spirit; whence it is rightly added, “And a man’s foes are they of his household.”
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For the subtle enemy when he sees himself driven out of the hearts of the good, seeks out those who most love them, and speaking by the mouth of those who are dearest, endeavours while the heart is penetrated by…
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Cross-references · 18
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 10.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.6.
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Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Hilary of Poitiers on Matthew 10:34–36 (Catena Aurea) and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.6.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.13.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.6.
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 10:34–36 (3) (Catena Aurea).