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Mat 10:5-6. Ὁδὸν-πόλιν-οἴκον, way-city-house) The apostles were sometimes obliged to tread the roads of the Samaritans in their journeys;[454] but there was the less need for them to enter their cities, and stay there, because the Lord had preached to them in His journey (see John 4), and the apostles also were afterwards to come to them. The first of these injunctions regards this first legation; most of the rest apply equally to the whole office of the apostolate, to which the twelve are introduced on the present occasion; cf. Mat 10:18. Our Lord gave nearly the same commands to the seventy disciples; Luk 10:1-11.
[454] Inasmuch as Samaria was situated between Judea and Galilee.-V. g.