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Mat_10:35-36. Comp. Mat_10:21. Involuntary recollection of Mic_7:6. Comp. also Sota xlix. 2, in Schoettgen.
ἦλθον γάρ ] solemn repetition.
διχάσαι ] to separate (Plat. Polit. p. 264 D), i.e. to place a man in that attitude of party hostility ( διχοστασία ) toward his father which results in their separation, and so on.
νύμφη : young wife (common in classical writers), specially in the sense of daughter-in-law (in the LXX.).
καὶ ἐχθροὶ , κ . τ . λ .] imminent, as if already present: and a man’s enemies (are) the members of his own family! ἐχθροί is a predicate.