ABSTRACT
Moreover, although the doctrine of Christian ethics is very widely diffused across the entire word of God, all this knowledge, which was called ethike or phusike by the ancient and Greek Christians and is distinguished from ceremonial learning as well as from judicial learning and is only comprised in the ten commandments, is nevertheless contained in god’s law. Peace and war are, after all, opposites of each other in the same way as concord and strife. For just as peace tends to arise from concord, in the same way does war arise from strife. Hence, war, as Festus Pompeius tells us, has been named after beasts, since such a pernicious disagreement is appropriate not for humans but for beasts. In a civil conflict or war, both parts have and acknowledge their commander and leader as the supreme magistrate; for this reason, both sides believe that they wage a just and legitimate war.
