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Jerome
Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 10
Mt 10, Verses 34–36English original
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her. mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
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.