4. 'laxapiuTTis, Iscarlot) so called from the village of Iscariot in the tribe of Ephraim, as Jerome says on the beginning of Isaiah xxviii. Louis de Dieu, on Acts i. 16, says, " In the .^Ethiopic language, I find f"1?^ f°r a bag or pouch to carry money in : for thus the translator has rendered rb y^uaGoKdpov (the bag) in John xii. 6, and xiii. 29. — Hence may be derived, without any impropriety, xnV"]3K'S (Iscariota), 6 s^uv yAw<r<r&xo>oi<, he who hath the bag. — 6 xai, ivho also) The word also implies that Judas was best known and most easily distinguished by the be trayal. — vapadovs, betrayed) By the mention of his treason, it is silently intimated that Matthias, whom St Luke mentions by name in the Acts, was his successor in the apostolate.
5. 6. ' Odbv — -roX/v — O'IKOV, ivay — city — house) The apostles were sometimes obliged to tread the roads of the Samaritans in their journeys ;x but there was the less need for them to enter their cities, and stay there, because the Lord had preached to them in His journey (see John iv.), and the apostles also were afterwards to come to them. The first of these injunctions regards this first legation ; most of the rest apply equally to the whole office of the apostolate, to which the twelve are introduced on the pre sent occasion; cf. ver. 18. Our Lord gave nearly the same com mands to the seventy disciples; Luke x. 1—11.
6. Tlpofiara, sheep) See ch. ix. 36. — d-roXwXoVa, lost) He uses this expression in preference to led astray : cf. ch. xviii. 12, 14. The apostles would find sufficient occupation in attending to these. — Iffpafa, Israel) from which the Samaritans had departed.
7. HopiviifAtvoi, as ye go) Answering to cropsuso^g (go ye), in ver. 6. — xrtpvffffirs, preach ye) Here were the disciples going forth like students in theology, who practise the rudiments of the ministry and perform the functions of curates, and afterwards return to receive further instruction.2 — #yywv, is at hand) This
rities are for K«i 0aSS««?o? here, which otherwise might well be a transcriber's or harmonist's correction from Mark iii. 18 ; Aip/lalo;, as the less open to suspicion of transcribers' corrections, being accounted as the genuine reading. Jerome calls him Tpiavvfto;, triple-named ; so that in his day Lebbeus must have been a recognised name either here or in Mark, as well as Thaddeus and Judas. — ED.
1 Inasmuch as Samaria was situated between Judea and Galilee. — V. g.
2 They themselves, in fact, were as yet destitute of perfect knowledge of Jesus Christ, who not until afterwards instructed them more distinctly con-