disinclination to engage in disputes, that is admirable, but Jesus is talking about more than that. He refers not to peace-keepers but to peace-makers, people who end hostilities and bring the quarrelsome together. Argyle points out that these are “not appeasers, but those who actively overcome evil with good.” A person may be known as one who ends hostilities throughout his whole sphere of life, whether that sphere be great or small.30 It is people like this who will be called God’s sons. There
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