An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

Not Peace, but Division

“I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!

Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.