Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter XXVII: Questions and Answers
sword upon the earth, nor do I act contrary to Him in asking
peace of the hearers. But you both unskillfully and rashly find
fault with what you do not understand: for you have heard
that the Master came not to send peace on earth; but that He
eace-makers, for they shall be
efore
my sentiments are not different from those of the Master
when I recommend peace, to the keepers of which He assigned
e to answer for
your Master, O Kefa, you have brought a much more serious
charge against him, if he himself came not to make peace, yet
enjoined upon others to keep it. Where, then, is the consisten-
id that
is the
True Prophet and ever mindful of Himself, neither contradicted
Himself, nor enjoined upon us anything different from
to send peace on earth, but a sword; and henceforth you shall
see father separated from son, son from father, husband from
wife and wife from husband, mother from daughter and
daughter from mother, brother from brother, father-in-law
from daughter-in-
doctrine of peace; and; will tell you how. At the beginning of
His preaching, as wishing to invite and lead all to salvation,
and induce them to bear patiently labors and trials, He blessed
the poor, and promised that they should obtain the kingdom
of heaven for their endurance of poverty, in order that under
the influence of such a hope they might bear with equanimity
the right of poverty, despising covetousness; for covetousness
is one, and the greatest, of most pernicious sins. But He promised
also that the hungry and the thirsty should be satisfied