Matthew 10:35 - Exposition

Parallel passage: Luke 12:53 (cf. supra , Luke 12:21 , Luke 12:22 ). For I am come; I came (Revised Version). Notice the threefold ἦλθον . Christ would leave in his hearers' minds no room for thinking that he was ignorant of what the immediate result of his coming would be. To. A mere infinitive, not even with τοῦ , much less ἵνα with subject. The result is not in any sense the final cause of his coming. Set a man at variance against ( διχάσαι … κατὰ ) . By the preposition is implied enmity, by the verb complete severance. For relation to God is the great line of cleavage, and that not only in God's sight, but in outcome of character. His father . From this word till the end of Luke 12:36 our Lord adopts Micah's ( Micah 7:6 ) description of a general time of distrust for his own picture of the discord introduced by his coming. The wording is hardly taken from the LXX .