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The daily Luther

17th January

Think not that I am sent to bring 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.

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Cover of "Luther Breviary"
Cover of "Luther Breviary"

The daily Luther

17th January

Think not that I am sent to bring 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.

Matthew 10 (xxxiv-xxxvi)

All the conflicts and wars in the Old Testament are a reflection of this Gospel message: there must be and there should be conflicts, disunity, dissension and squabbling. This was how Christianity was at the time of the apostles and martyrs and this was its best time. This is a blessed war, a blessed rebellion and uproar and it is God's Word that has caused all this.

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