Annotatio IV §.I: Scripture — Devil father of dissensions; lion; Judas; diabolical quarrels; tares in the wheat
For the Holy Spirit Himself names the Devil father of dissensions no less than of slanders and of the murders that sprout from them (John 8:44).
He does not only gape after people like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5) and spur them to his works (James 4); God permitting by just judgment, he also works in the sons of unbelief and through them (Ephesians 2:2 with 5:6), and even entered a Judas, betrayer of Christ (John 13).
Moreover he stirs up, feeds, and pushes quarrels of that kind — so, from their first spring, they are rightly called diabolical (James 3:15) — sowing tares of lies and dissension in the wheat of truth and peace.
Latin
Quandoquidem ab ipso Spiritu S. dissidiorum non minus ac calumniarum, quam homicidiorum ex istis pullulantium, Pater, Diabolus nuncupatur Joh. 8. 44. non hominibus duntaxat inhians, Leonis rugientis ad instar 1. Pet. 5. adque opera sua incitans, Jacob. 4. quin permittente ex justo judicio Deô, operationem etiam suam in filiis infidelitatis perque eos peragens, Eph. 2, 2. collat. cum 5, 6. inque Judam etiam aliquem, Proditorem Christi, illapsus, Joh. 13; sed rixas insuper in specie excitans, alens, promovensque; ob id, respectu primae earum scaturiginis, denominandas Diabolicas. Jac. 3, 15. hincque tritico Veritatis ac Pacis, Mendaciorum ac Dissidiorum Zizania interferens.