[3029] St. Mark vi. 7.
[3030] So also in St. Matthew and in St. Mark. But this authority' sprang from the power which he gave them.
[3031] Dean Plumptre remarks: The words ("raise the dead") are omitted by the best MSS.'
[3032] Weiss (Matth. Evang. p. 262) has the curious idea that the prohibitions about money, &c., refer to their not making gain on their journey.
[3033] Sandals, but not shoes. As regards the marked difference about the staff,' Ebrard (Evang. Gesch. p. 459) points out the agreement of thought in all the Gospels. Nothing was to be taken - they were to go as they stood, without preparation or provision. Sometimes there was a secret receptacle at the top of the staff to hold valuables, or, in the case of the poor, water (Kel. xvii. 16).
[3034] Comp. for this latter aspect 1 Tim. v. 18.
[3035] According to Jewish Law, the labourers' (the{hebrew}, at least), would be secured their food. Not so always, however, slaves (Gitt. 12 a). In general, the Rabbinic Law of slavery is exceeding harsh - far more so than that of the Pentateuch (comp. an abstract of the Laws of Slavery in Fassel, Mos.-Rabb. Civil-Recht, vol. ii. pp. 393-406).
[3036] The direction is recorded by St. Matthew only. But St. Matt. xxviii. 19 would, if it were necessary, sufficiently prove that this is not a Judaistic limitation.
[3037] Sanh. 15 b; Ned. 53 b.
[3038] Jer. Abhod. Z 44 d.
[3039] Jer. Sheq. i. 5, p. 46 b.
[3040] Ab. i. 13.
[3041] Ab. iv. 5; Bekhor. 29 a.
[3042] At the same time the statement in Bekhor. 29 a, that if needful money was to be paid for the acquisition of learning,' according to Prov. xxiii. 23 (by the truth'), implies that the rule cannot always have been strictly observed.
[3043] The Manal ({hebrew}) or shoe, in contradistinction to the Sandal ({hebrew}), as in Jer. Shabb. 8 a.
[3044] Ber. ix. 5.
[3045] The Pundah ({hebrew}), or Aphundah ({hebrew}). Comp. for ex. Jer. Shabb. 12 c.
[3046] St. Luke ii. 49.
[3047] Sanh. x. 3.
[3048] Deut. xiii. 17.
[3049] The explanations of this expression generally offered need not here be repeated.
[3050] Jer. Peah 16 a.
[3051] Sanh. 64 a.
[3052] According to Gen. xiii. 3.
[3053] Arach. 16 b, lines 12 and 11 from bottom.
[3054] So common, indeed, was this view as to have become proverbial. Thus, it was said concerning learned descendants of a learned man, that the Torah returned into its Akhsanya ((xenia),' or hospice (Baba Mez. 85 a, bis, in the curious story about the successful attempts made to convert to study the dissolute son of a great Rabbi).
[3055] St. Matt. x. 1-15.
[3056] St. Matt. x. 16-23.
[3057] vv. 16-18.
[3058] ver. 23.
[3059] Dan. vii. 13.
[3060] On Esther viii. 2, ed. Warsh. p. 120 b.
[3061] On Cant. ii. 14.
[3062] The question of the constitution and jurisdiction of the various Sanhedrin will be discussed in another place.
[3063] St. Matt. x. 17.
[3064] ver. 18.
[3065] vv. 21, 22.
[3066] St. John xi. 48.
[3067] St. Luke xxi. 29-31.
[3068] St. Matt. xxi. 33-46, and the parallels.
[3069] St. Matt. xvi. 28, and parallels.
[3070] St. Matt. xxiv. and parallels.
[3071] St. Matt. xxiv. 34; St. Mark xiii.30; St. Luke xxi. 32.
[3072] St. Matt. xxv. 1-30.
[3073] Sot. ix. 15; comp. Sanh. 97 a to 99 a, passim.
[3074] Hos. xii. 12.
[3075] Ex. ii. 15.
[3076] 1 Sam. xix. 12; comp. Bemidb. R. 23, ed. Warsh. p. 86 b, and Tanch.
[3077] St. Matt. x. 24-34.
[3078] So Ber. 58 b; Siphra on Lev. xxv. 23; Ber. R. 49; Shem. R. 42; Midr. on Ps. xxvii. 4.
[3079] This is undoubtedly the correct reading, and not Beelzebub. Any reference to the Baalzebub, or fly-god' of 2 Kings i. 2, seems, rationally, out of the question.