was to be the burden and sum of their discourses;1 cf. Mark vi. 12.
8. 'Af&svoSvraj — daipovia, sick — devils} An ascending gradation : cf. ver. 1, where the highest grade is put first. — duptav, gratui tously) This is not inconsistent with the conclusion of ver. 10. Hire is due for labour, but miracles and gifts of grace ought not to be sold.
9. My Krr,aria^f, x.r.X., do not procure, etc.) Thus they were taught apostolic contentedness.2 They were permitted to use what they already possessed, but not to procure any thing new. — Xpvffbv — apyvpov — ^aXxov, gold — silver — brass) i.e., money, large or small. — el$ rag £<^aj, into your girdles) which served also for purses.
10. Hfipav, scrip) in which bread and other articles of food were kept ; see Mark vi. 8. — pride pd88ov, nor staff) In Mark vi. 8, we read " but one staff" He who had no staff, was not to care about procuring one, for our Lord says " do not procure ;" he however who possessed a staff, might take it with him, for convenience, not defence. — a^io; yap 6 spy arris, x.r.X., for the labourer is worthy, etc.) On the other hand, the hire is worthy of the labourer. — rpo^g, food) This word includes all the articles which are enumerated in ver. 9, 10.
11. 'Efyrdaa-ri, search out) sc. by asking others, and by spiritual examination. The godly are easily discovered by the godly, and in like manner the ungodly by the ungodly. — a^iog sari, is worthy) sc. of being your host. — xaxs/" /tsfvare, and there remain) sc. in the house of that man, until you leave the
cerning His passion, death, and resurrection. In the meantime, their preach ing, confirmed as it was by very many miracles, prepared the minds of men, so as that they subsequently, without difficulty, yielded themselves up to obey Him, on His advent among them, of whom the hope had been pre sented to them by this preparatory announcement. Comp. ver. 23. — Harm., p. 293.
1 Which exhorted to repentance. — A7, g.
2 " Sic didicere mirrmf*ti*» apostolicam." The word a.vTa.px.uu., implies not merely the patient endurance of penury or privation, but such a state of mind and habit of acting and judging as would actually render the individual suf ficiently fed, clothed, etc., and fully satisfied with that which would not meet the exigencies of another. The sense of Independence, so frequent in the classical writers, is not wholly abandoned. — (I. B.)