But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
Ver. 6. But brother goeth to law] Once it was counted ominous to commence actions, and follow suits. Of common barreters, we may say as the historian doth of mathematicians, Genus hominum quod in nostra repub. et vetabitur semper, et retinebitur. (Tacit.)
But brother] Still Satan is thus busy, and Christians are thus malicious; that, as if they wanted enemies, they fly in one another's faces, as did Epiphanius and Chrysostom, Luther and Zuinglius, Hooper and Ridley, Taylor and Lambert, those English exiles at Frankfort in Queen Mary's days, and Knox, &c.