Robertson Word Pictures - Luke 10:7 - 10:7

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Robertson Word Pictures - Luke 10:7 - 10:7


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In that same house (en autēi tēi oikiāi). Literally, in the house itself, not “in the same house” (en tēi autēi oikiāi), a different construction. A free rendering of the common Lukan idiom is, “in that very house.”

Eating (esthontes). An old poetic verb esthō for esthiō that survives in late Greek.

Such things as they give (ta par' autōn). “The things from them.”

For the labourer is worthy of his hire (axios gar ho ergatēs tou misthou autou). In Mat 10:10 we have tēs trophēs autou (his food). 1Ti 5:18 has this saying quoted as scripture. That is not impossible if Luke wrote by a.d. 62. Paul there however may quote only Deu 25:4 as scripture and get this quotation either from Luk 10:7 or from a proverbial saying of Jesus. It is certainly not a real objection against the Pauline authorship of First Timothy.

Go not from house to house (mē metabainete ex oikias eis oikian). As a habit, mē and the present imperative, and so avoid waste of time with such rounds of invitations as would come.