Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 10:37 - 10:37

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Matthew 10:37 - 10:37


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37. The connection is this: there will be divisions in families; My disciples must not hesitate to side with Me rather than with father or mother, or son or daughter. The new life changes the old relationships: everything is viewed now in reference to Christ, to whom His followers are related as mother and sisters and brethren.

This absolute self-surrender and subordination of all meaner interests to the higher law and the one great Master find parallels in Greek conceptions. Hector prefers honour and duty to love of Andromache (Il. VI. 441 foll.). The interest of the Antigone turns on the conflict between obedience to the supreme law of conscience and the respect to human law and human relations:

οὐδὲ σθένειν τοσοῦτον ᾠόμην τὰ σὰ

κηρύγμαθʼ ὥστʼ ἄγραπτα κἀσφαλῆ θεῶν

νόμιμα δύνασθαι θνητὸν ὄνθʼ ὑπερδραμεῖν.

Ant. 453.

Thus it is that Christ sets his seal on all that is noblest in the uninspired thought of the world.