So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.
Ver. 24. Fall not out by the way.] Such a charge layeth Christ upon all his, to love one another, and to "keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Si collidimur, frangimur; If we clash, we are broken; according to the old fable of the two earthen pots swimming in the sea. The daughter of dissension is dissolution, said Nazianzen. And every subdivision in point of religion is a strong weapon in the hand of the contrary party, as he upon the Council of Trent wisely observed. a Castor and Pollux, if they appear not together, it presages a storm.
a Hist. of Coun. of Trent, fol. 49.