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Commentary from the Church Fathers [ edit ] Gregory the Great : "Miracles also were granted to the holy preachers, that the power they should show might be a pledge of the truth of their words, and they who preached new things should also do new things; wherefore it follows, Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out dæmons."
Matthew 10 is the tenth chapter in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament section of the Christian Bible. This chapter opens with Jesus calling some of his disciples and sending them out to preach and heal.
The word for "bag" (KJV: "scrip") is "tarmil" in Hebrew, as found in one Jewish commentary, [1] to call "a large leather bag", in which shepherds and travelers carried their food, and other things, hanging it around their necks. [2] The disciples were told to carry neither money with them, nor any provisions for their journey. [2]
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. The New International Version translates the passage as: If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you.
3 Commentary from the Church Fathers. ... Matthew 10:7; ← 10:6. 10:8 → ... In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And as ye go, preach, saying ...
This is the fifth precept of Christ given to His Apostles, i.e. not to possess money. Lapide gives three possible reasons for this: 1) being free of earthly concerns they might rely solely on the providence of God; 2) have all their attention focused on preaching; 3) be an example of simplicity, poverty and contempt of riches, i.e. of an angelic life, that would draw people to them.
Matthew is interpreted ‘given,’ because by the Lord's bounty he was made an Evangelist of a Publican." [ 4 ] Rabanus Maurus : "This James is he who in the Gospels, and also in the Epistle to the Galatians, is called the Lord’s brother.
Chrysostom: " Then that those to whom the love of God is preferred should not be offended thereat, He leads them to a higher doctrine.Nothing is nearer to a man than his soul, and yet He enjoins that this should not only be hated, but that a man should be ready to deliver it up to death, and blood; not to death only, but to a violent and most disgraceful death, namely, the death of the cross ...