4 But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.



Ver. 4. But the multitude was divided] åó÷éóèç , Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus. Christ came not to send peace, but a sword. Yet is not he the cause of division, but the occasion only, and that by accident. (So sin is the occasion, not the cause, that grace aboundeth.) They that quarrel at God’s ordinances for this may as well quarrel at the Lord’s supper; which though a sacrament of love, a communion, yet hath occasioned much dissension: witness that bellum Sacramentarium, than the which never any kindled sooner is quenched slower.