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15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Ver. 15. Whosoever hateth his brother] Not to love then is to hate, as not to save a man is to kill him, Mar_3:4.
Is a murderer] Because he wisheth him out of the world, as Caracalla did his brother Geta, of whom he said, Divus sit, modo non sit vivus, I would he were in heaven or anywhere, so that I were rid of him. By like reason we may say that sin is God-murder; forasmuch as sinners are God haters, Rom_1:30, and could wish there were no God, that they might never come to judgment. The godly man, on the contrary, cries out with David, Vivat Deus, " Let the Lord live, and blessed be the God of my salvation," &c., Psa_18:46.
Ver. 15. Whosoever hateth his brother] Not to love then is to hate, as not to save a man is to kill him, Mar_3:4.
Is a murderer] Because he wisheth him out of the world, as Caracalla did his brother Geta, of whom he said, Divus sit, modo non sit vivus, I would he were in heaven or anywhere, so that I were rid of him. By like reason we may say that sin is God-murder; forasmuch as sinners are God haters, Rom_1:30, and could wish there were no God, that they might never come to judgment. The godly man, on the contrary, cries out with David, Vivat Deus, " Let the Lord live, and blessed be the God of my salvation," &c., Psa_18:46.