Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother… There is a climax of three degrees. Brother shall be against brother, parent against child, child against parents — each worse than the preceding. The history of the Church has many illustrations of this. Such were the histories of Perpetua and Felicitas, in the persecution of Severus, where the children refused to listen to parents' entreaties to give up Christ, and died in their steadfastness; and such was the dreadful speech recorded of Philip II. of Spain, who thought that he was showing zeal for God by declaring of the Protestants, "If it were my own son, I would bring the faggot." (W. Benham.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
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