consciences of all believers, of all who are called by the Holy Ghost and made priests to God. They ought to re- mind us of the necessity of simplicity and unworldliness in our daily life. We must beware of thinking too much about our meals, and our furniture, ani our houses, and all those many things which concern the life of the body. We must strive to live like men whose first thoughts are about the immortal soul. We must endeavour to pass through the world like men who are not yet at home, and are not overmuch troubled about the fare they meet with on the road and at the inn. Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come !
Notes. Luxe X. 1 — 7.
1 . — [Appointed.] The Greek word so translated is only found in one other place in the New Testament, Acts i. 24., where it is rendered "shew." According to Parkhurst, it signifies •* to mark out, or, appoint to an office by some outward sign, and is often used in this sense by profane writers and in the apocryphal books." John the Baptist's "shewing" to Israel, Luke i. 80, is a substantive derived n'om this word.
[Other seventy.] We know nothing of the names, or subsequent history of these seventy disciples. They are nowhere else men- tioned in the New Testament. Most commentators remark on the selection of the number seventy, and assign reasons for it. Grotius says, that they were chosen according to the number of the Jewish Sanhedrim, and so were seventy-two, six being chosen out of every tribe of Israel. Wordsworth remarks, that " the number seventy was that of the heads of the families of Israel (Gen. xlvi. 27.,) and of the elders constituted by Moses. (Numb, xi. 16. 2b.) and of the palm trees at Elim. (Exod. xv. 27.) And the Jews supposed that the languages of the world were seventy."
[Sent them two and two.] The mission of the disciples in pairs deserves remark, and ought to be remembered in modem missionary work. "Two are better than one." (Eccles. iv. 9.) Cornelius a Lapide has a long and interesting note, to show the wisdom of the arrangement.
[He would come.] The Greek expression would be more literally rendered, " was about to come."