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Mat 10:7. Πορευόμενοι, as ye go) Answering to πορεύεσθε (go ye), in Mat 10:6.-κηρύσσετε, preach ye) Here were the disciples going forth like students in theology, who practise the rudiments of the ministry and perform the functions of curates, and afterwards return to receive further instruction.[455]-ἤγγικεν, is at hand) This was to be the burden and sum of their discourses;[456] cf. Mar 6:12.
[455] They themselves, in fact, were as yet destitute of perfect knowledge of Jesus Christ, who not until afterwards instructed them more distinctly concerning His passion, death, and resurrection. In the meantime, their preaching, confirmed as it was by very many miracles, prepared the minds of men, so as that they subsequently, without difficulty, yielded themselves up to obey Him, on His advent among them, of whom the hope had been presented to them by this preparatory announcement. Comp. Mat 10:23.-Harm., p. 293.
[456] Which exhorted to repentance.-V. g.