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“But he said to them, It is enough.”
War.
Ambrose, in book 10 on Luke, so interprets this passage that he seems to hold that the right of warring is forbidden by the evangelical law. Which opinion Erasmus and Oecolampadius abuse for the overthrow of Christian soldiery. Read what is had above, Annotation 156.
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Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation CLVIII, War (Luke 22:38),” in Annotations on the New Testament, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta-nt/160-annotation-clviii-war-luke-22-38/.
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