a division Schisma, whence our word -schism." It means a serious and possibly violent division: John 9:16; John 10:19; 1 Corinthians 1:10; 1 Corinthians 12:25; comp. Acts 14:4; Acts 23:7. In N.T. it is never used in the modern sense of a separation fromthe Church, but of parties inthe Church. In the Synoptists it is used only in its original sense of physicalsevering; -a worse rentis made;" Matthew 9:16; Mark 2:21.

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