Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxiv Pg 3
Apostolos: Luke x. i.
besides the twelve. Now why, if the twelve followed the number of the twelve fountains of Elim,4416 4416 Compare above, book iv. chap. xiii. p. 364.
should not the seventy correspond to the like number of the palms of that place?4417 4417
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxiv Pg 34
Luke x. 11.
If He does not enjoin this by way of a commination, the injunction is a most useless one. For what mattered it to them that the kingdom was at hand, unless its approach was accompanied with judgment?—even for the salvation of such as received the announcement thereof. How, if there can be a threat without its accomplishment, can you have in a threatening god, one that executes also, and in both, one that is a judicial being?4446 4446 Et judicem in utroque.
So, again, He commands that the dust be shaken off against them, as a testimony,—the very particles of their ground which might cleave4447 4447 Hærentia.
to the sandal, not to mention4448 4448 Nedum.
any other sort of communication with them.4449 4449
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxiv Pg 38
Luke x. 11.
But if their churlishness4450 4450 Inhumanitas.
and inhospitality were to receive no vengeance from Him, for what purpose does He premise a testimony, which surely forbodes some threats? Furthermore, when the Creator also, in the book of Deuteronomy, forbids the reception of the Ammonites and the Moabites into the church,4451 4451 Ecclesiam. There is force in thus using Christian terms for Jewish ordinances, full as he is of the identity of the God of the old with Him of the new covenant.
because, when His people came from Egypt, they fraudulently withheld provisions from them with inhumanity and inhospitality,4452 4452
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes viii.xxvii Pg 34.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 6
VERSE (11) - Ne 5:13 Mt 10:14 Lu 9:5; 10:10,11 Ac 13:50,51; 18:6
