escription of the discord. διχάσαι, to divide in two (δίχα), to separate in feeling and interest, here only in N.T.; verifies the truth of Grotius' comment as to the “sword”. ἄνθρωπον κατὰ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ. In this and the following clauses it is the young that are set against the old. “In all great revolutions of thought the change begins from the young” (Carr, Cambridge Gr. T.). νύμφην, a young wife, here as opposed to πενθερᾶς, a daughter-in-law.

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