Luke 10:4 (WEB)
Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.
Fathers and councils · 25
Eusebius of Caesarea
“But there exists no catalogue of the seventy disciples.” — editor's note: See Luke x. 1–20.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis IV.1Book IV
“And now, if we institute a similar examination with regard to the Gospels, how shall it appear otherwise than absurd to take the injunction literally, “Salute no man by the way?”” — editor's note: Luke x. 4.
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“And if we go to the Gospel and institute a similar examination, what would be more irrational than (to take literally the injunction), “Salute no man by the way,” which simple persons think the Saviour enjoined on the apostles?” — editor's note: Luke x. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…counsel not to take a scrip for the journey, and so with other things in like manner which we find to have been spoken by the Lord in two different places,—why should it seem strange if some other word of the Lord, which was originally uttered on two separate occasions, may happen also to be recorded by two…” — editor's note: Luke ix. 3, x. 4. [The view of Augustin is now generally accepted. The occasions when the sayings were uttered are distinguished in the accounts of Matthew and…
Read the whole commentChapter LXII.—Of the Harmony Subsisting Between Matthew and Mark in the Accounts Which They Offer of the Time When He Was Asked Whether It Was Lawful to Put Away One’s Wife, and Especially in Regard to the Specific…
Read the whole comment“And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as are with them: for the workman is worthy of his hire.”” — editor's note: Luke x. 1–7
Read the whole comment“If the Son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it; if not, it shall return to you again.”” — editor's note: Luke x. 4–6.
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Tertullian
“When the children of Israel went out of Egypt, the Creator brought them forth laden with their spoils of gold and silver vessels, and with loads besides of raiment and unleavened dough; whereas Christ commanded His disciples not to carry even a staff for their journey.” — editor's note: Virgam, Luke x. 4, and Matt x. 10.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Carry not,” said the Lord, “purse, nor scrip, nor shoes;” that is, possess not wealth, which is only treasured up in a purse; fill not your own stores, as if laying up produce in a bag, but communicate to those who have need.” — editor's note: Luke x. 4.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
Luke next relates, that the seventy disciples obtained for themselves from Christ apostolical learning, lowliness, innocency, justice, and to prefer no worldly things to holy preachings, but to aspire to such…
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For their comfort amid every danger was the power of Him who sent them. And therefore saith He, Behold, I send you; as if he said, This will suffice for your consolation, this will be enough to make you hope, instead…
Read the whole comment - Isidore of SevilleCatena Aurea on Luke
Denoting the simplicity and innocence in His disciples. For those who were riotous, and by their enormities did despite to their nature, He calls not lambs, but goats.
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Now these animals are at variance among themselves, so that the one is devoured by the other, the lambs by the wolves; but the good Shepherd has no fear of wolves for His flock. And therefore the disciples are…
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For this was a clear announcement of glorious triumph, that the disciples of Christ, when surrounded by their enemies as lambs among wolves, should still convert them.
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Or He especially gives the name of wolves to the Scribes and Pharisees, who are the Jewish clergy.
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Or the heretics are compared to wolves. For wolves are beasts who lay in wait near the sheep folds, and prowl about the shepherds’ cottages. They dare not enter the abodes of men, they pry out sleeping dogs, absent…
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For many when they receive the right of rule, are vehement in persecuting their subjects, and manifesting the terrors of their power. And since they have no bowels of mercy, their desire is to seem to be masters,…
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The sum of which is, that men ought to be so virtuous that the Gospel should make no less progress through their way of life than their preaching.
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For the preacher (of the Gospel) ought to have such trust in God, that although he has provided not for the expenses of this present life, he should still be most certainly convinced that these will not fail him;…
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Thus He had already commanded them to have no care for these persons, when He said, I send you as lambs among wolves. And He also forbade all care about what is external to the body, by saying, Take neither purse nor…
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Our Lord did not then forbid these things because the exercise of benevolence was displeasing to Him, but because the motive of following after devotedness was more pleasing.
Read the whole comment - Gregory of NazianzusCatena Aurea on Luke
The Lord gave them these commands also for the glory of the word, lest it should seem that enticements could more prevail over them. He wished them also not to be anxious to speak to others.
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If any one would have these words taken also allegorically, the money shut up in a purse is the hidden wisdom. He then who has the word of wisdom, and neglects to employ it for his neighbour, is like one who keeps…
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Our Lord also would have nothing human in us. For Moses is bid to loose off the human and earthly shoe when he was sent to deliver the people. (Exod. 3:5) But if any one is perplexed why in Egypt we are ordered to…
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Now every one who salutes on the way does so from the accident of the journey, not for the sake of wishing health. He then who not from love of a heavenly country, but from seeking reward, preaches salvation to his…
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Ambrose of Milan on Luke 10:3–4 (4) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in The Instructor III.7.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.33.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.33.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.33.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.33.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.33.
Cited together in Harmony of the Gospels II.33.