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Podcast: Orthodox Ethos
Episode: Christ, 'A Sign to be Spoken Against': On the Two Types of Divisiveness
Description: (Originally broadcast on Dec. 1, 2018)The enemy of manās salvation is called, in Greek, Īæ Ī“Ī¹Ī¬Ī²ĪæĪ»ĪæĻ, or the one who slanders and thus divides. His āmodus operandiā is to divide and conquer. Thus, a sure sign of his handiwork is division, exemplified by the separation he provoked between the First-formed and God in Paradise. But, are all kinds of division his work? What are we to make of our Lord Jesus Christās words, āSuppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather divisionā (Luke 12:51)? And, elsewhere: āThink not that I am come to send peace o...