Luk 9:53. Ὅτι, because) It was openly manifest that He was seeking to reach Jerusalem: this the Samaritans regarded with aversion [as being bitter enemies to Jewish ordinances of worship.-V. g.]-πρόσωπον, face) So the LXX. 2Sa 17:11, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπόν σου πορευόμενον ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν. “Whithersoever the face is turned, thither is directed the ardour of mind which conquers every difficulty.