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The sword separates the Christians from God They are united to him by following Christ's perfection. They have been redeemed together by the blood of Christ, and together they pray,

They profess one common Father and say, "forgive us – as we have forgiven." They are one with God and partakers of His goodness. If they embrace such a brotherly fellowship in the bond of love and peace, who are the old monks of exalted saintliness who want to deduce from this faith war and murder?

The pagans are no partakers of divine graces which the Christians claim, and therefore they are allowed to struggle for temporal things in accordance with their blindness and pride and avarice. But if the Christians behave thus, they are worse than the pagans. And they do not resemble even the Jews who were allowed to kill and to war by their Law; but to us killing is forbidden not only by the law but by the wrath of God as well. Matt 6: 9,12,. 244*