The Pulpit Commentary — Matthew — Volume 1 — Section 413

with them. There is e. strict etiquette e.bout Luke ix. 5 (cf. the pe.rallel pMsagea, Mark it,invol ring much ostentBtiou e.ntl hypocrisy; vi. 11 ; Luke x. 10), e.nd therefore belongs to e.nd e. failure in the due observe.nee of this the source need by St. Matthew. She.ka o~ system of hospitality is violently resented, the dust of (" off," lK, Westcott e.nd Hort, e.nd often lee.de to e.liene.tions e.nd feuds mnrgin) your feet. Tree.ting it e.s e. bee.then among neighbours. It e.lso consumes much ple.ce, whose pollution must be shaken off. time, co.uses unusual clistrBCtion of mind, For the very dust from e. bee.then le.nd was to leBds to levity, e.nd every we.y oonnteracts be reckoned e.s polluting, since, as Re.ahi says the success of e. spiritual mission" (Thom- on Te.Im. Be.b., 'Sabb.,' 15b (cf. Lightfoot, son, 'Le.nd e.nd the Book,' p. 347); cf. 'Hor. Hehr.,' in loc.), "It may be doubted, St. Luke's " Go not from house to house" of e.11 the dust of a heathen land, whether (x. 7). It is, on the other he.nd, quite un- it were not from the sepulchre of the dead." necessary to see here, with Meyer e.nd Weiss, (For the e.poatolic fulfilment of our Lord's a prohibition to go to the syne.gogues or injunction cf. Acts xiii 51 and xviii. 6; eee indeed to anywhere else where they could e.lso Neh. v. 13.) go.in a bee.ring during their ate.y. OW' Ver. 15.-Pare.llel passage: Luke x. 12 Lord is referring only to lodging and food (the seventy). Similar words a.re need by (Luke x. 7). our Lord in his apostrophe of Capcrna.nm (eh. xL 24, where seo note). The combina- Vera, 12, 13.-Parallel pe.ssage: Luke x. tion in Luke x. 11 e.nd 12-15 of both the 5, 6 (the seventy), Your very entrance is contexts is e.n instructive warning against to be an occasion of imparting spiritual accepting the present position of onr Lord's bleBBing if the house be receptive of it. sayings e.a tile fine.I indication of the occe..sion upon which they were delivered. Verily. Ver. 12,-And when ye oome; and aa ye (For the idea of acquiescence the.t alwe.ys enter (Revised Version); synchronous with underlies this word-even in the case of so the moment of )'OUl' entrance (cf. Luke solemn a me.tter e.s the presen t--comp. xvii. 12). Into e.n house ; the house (Revised oh. v. 18, note.) I say unto you, It she.ll be -version); i.e. of him who is worthy. Salute more tolerable for the le.nd of Sodom ud it. With the uane.l greeting of "Peace" Gomorrhe.. Whose .inhabit.ants were the (Judg. xviii. 15; 1 Snm. xxv. 5, 6). Observe typical example of the worst of sinners the.t Christ practised what he preached (Deut. xxxii. 32 ; Isa. i. 10; Ezek. xvi. 46; (John xx. 19 [Luke xxiv. 36]). Rev. xi. 8). "The men of Sodom have no Ver. 13.-Andifthehouse. Not the house- part in the world to come" (Mishna,' San h.,' holder e.lone (ver. 11), but he e.nd his fe.mily x. 3). In the de.y of judgment. Luke has e.s e. whole. :Be worthy, let your pee.ea oome "iu that de.y;" of. eh. vii. 22. In the only upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your two pe.asnges in the LXX. (Prov. vi. 3,1; peace return to you. It is tempting to see Ise.. xxxiv. 8) where, e.s it seems, our phrose in these words e. promise the.t your e.otivity occurs, it refers, not to the judgmcnt of e.11, she.11 e.t lee.at issue in inoree.aed blessing on good e.nd be.d e.like, but to tho.t of the wicked yoW'Belves, but it ce.u he.rdly be pressed so e.lone. So e.lao in 2 Pet. ii. 9 ; iii. 7 ; e.nd far. It re.ther means that failure to impe.rt possibly e.lso in eh. xii. 36, but not in 1 John blessing ahe.11 not bring apiritue.l loss to your- iv. 17 (the only pe.asage where it is not selvea. "The clove retUJ'nerl to the e.rk e.ge.in e.ne.rthrous). The.n for the.t city. Observe when it found the en.rth under we.ter" ( cf. tho.t this verse implies thnt the wicked del\d Gurnnll, in Ford). e.re still in existence, e.nd e.re Wl\iling for Vers.14, 15.-If rejectecl, bee.r your solemn their final judgment; e.lao tho.t in the judg- ment of the wicked there will be degrees of witness to the fe.ct, for to reject you brings punishment. awful consequences. Ver. 14.-Pe.re.llel passages: Me.rk vi.11; Vars. 16-89.-The internal condition, of Luke ix. 5 (the twelve); x. 10, 11 (the conveying Christ', mes,age. The subdivisions seventy). And whosoever she.II not receive of this section e.re e.fter ver, 23 and ver. 33 you-on your forme.l request e.s heralds of (cf. var. 5b, note). the kingdom-nor hee.r your words (eh. vii. 24, note), when (as, Revised Version, ver.12, Vere. 16-23.-You will be in the midst note) ye depart (go forth, Revised Version) of foes, and simplicity must be nccompanied out ot. At the moment of going out (cf. by prudence (var. 16, e. summary of e.11); you ver. 12), i!•px&µ,vo, (E,., ( eh. xxi. 17 ; will be ill-treated publicly (vers.17, 18), but Aots xvi. 13), in this case fine.Uy. The.t must conduct yourselves with co.Im faith house or(that, Revised Vereion)oity. "'.rbe house," rightly further defined by "that" thnt you will be guided in your defence in English, comes in Matthew only ; " the.t (vcrs. 19, 20), with endurance of family a.nd oity " oomea e.lao in tho paro.llel paa1111ge, universal enmity (vera. 21, 22), with common  THE G-OSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MA.'1'1'HEW. [011. x. 1-42.