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Luk 14:31. Ἣ, or) Christianity is a great and difficult thing. It is therefore compared with great and difficult things: such as is the undertaking of a costly building in one’s private concerns, of a war, in the case of public concerns. The former parable expresses the ‘hatred’ of “father, mother,” etc.: the second parable expresses hatred of one’s “own life.”-βασιλεὺς, king) The Christian warfare has something royal and kingly in it.-εἰς πόλεμον, to engage in war). Comp. Gen 32:24.