For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Ver. 35. For I am come to set a man at variance, &c.] By accident it happened so, through men's singular corruption, causing them as bats to fly against the light of the gospel, to hate it as thieves do a torch in the night; or as the panther, which so hates man, that he tears his picture wherever he finds it.