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Luke 10:7

Luke 10:7

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

And in the same house remain,.... Where the sons of peace are, and the peace rests, and into which you are invited, and kindly received and used:eating and drinking such things as they give; or rather, "such things as are with them", as the Vulgate Latin renders it; or "of that which is theirs", as the Syriac version; all one, and with as much freedom, as if they were your own; the reason follows,for the labourer is worthy of his hire; what you eat and drink is your due; what you ought to have; your diet is a debt, and not a gratuity; See Gill on "Mt 10:10"go not from house to house; as if fickle and inconstant, as if not satisfied with your lodging and entertainment, and as seeking out for other and better, or as if burdensome where they were;See Gill on "Mt 10:11".

The Jews have a proverb, expressing the inconvenience and expensiveness, and the danger of moving from place to place:"he that goes, tybl tybm, "from house to house", (loses his) shirt, (i.e. comes to distress and poverty,) from place to place (his) life ;''or he is in great danger of losing his life.

Bereshit Rabba, sect. 39. fol. 34.

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