The Professor said:  ... Yoshke revels gleefully in claiming ...

I must reject that characterization.

Zvi said:  How does this mesh with the vision presented in Malachi?

Offhand, it does not seem to at all; it seems to point in the exact opposite direction.

Uri said:  It just seems to be yet another passage taken out-of-context by the authors of the CT.

The two historical contexts share the feature of intense social turmoil.  At the risk of supposing things too easily, it seems to me at this moment that these quotations come not from the historical Jesus (~28-30 C.E.), but from the early church at the time of the Gospels' composition; being an attempt by those writers, 40 years after Jesus, to account for some of what had begun to occur in their time.  I don't know that much about sinas micham, but it may be that families were already being disrupted in similar ways by various movements other than Christianity.

More material along the same lines appears at (1) Matthew 10:21, Mark 13:12, and Luke 21:16; and (2) Matthew 10:37 and Luke 14:26.

See also, however, my next post.

P.

“What I admire is honesty and truth, no matter who, or what, the sources are.”
— Uri Yosef