Proteus wrote:
Jesus here is supposedly quoting that verse.  I looked at Micah and that's about all I can make of it.  The gist in the GT is that such dismembering of families will result from his teachings, as did happen when some but not all members of a given family would convert and other family members betray them to persecuting authorities; or, alternatively, ban or shun them (cut them off).
I fail to see where the context of the reference to the verse in the CT is the same context in which it appears in the seventh chapter of Micah.   It just seems to be yet another passage taken out-of-context by the authors of the CT.

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WHOSOEVER DESTROYS A SINGLE SOUL OF ISRAEL, SCRIPTURE IMPUTES [GUILT] TO HIM AS THOUGH HE HAD DESTROYED A COMPLETE WORLD; AND WHOSOEVER PRESERVES A SINGLE SOUL OF ISRAEL, SCRIPTURE ASCRIBES [MERIT] TO HIM AS THOUGH HE HAD PRESERVED A COMPLETE WORLD. (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, 37a)

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